TikTok is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to craft AI infrastructure for SDLC and engineering efficiency in Seattle. This role focuses on building backend services, optimizing CI/CD, and delivering AI-powered developer tools.
You will collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and scale, applying distributed-systems expertise and hands-on AI integration to everyday development workflows.
Builds scalable backend systems for AI-powered features on TikTok’s local service platform, integrating LLMs and intelligent agents to enhance merchant/creator experiences and user interactions.
Builds and maintains high-throughput microservices for core TikTok services like Recommendations, Search, and E-Commerce using Go, C++, Java, or Python.
Senior backend engineer building distributed AI training infrastructure and orchestration services to support scalable model development and experimentation.
Senior backend engineer building and deploying AI-driven production systems in Python, using FastAPI/Flask/Django and Docker with ML model integration.
