Backend Software Engineer (Architect) -Reliability -Singapore
Singapore
Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:
4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
4.5/5 in supportive management
100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
100% would recommend this company to other women
100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.
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Position summary
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Responsibilities:
- Architect and build self-healing systems that adapt to infrastructure changes, migrations, and global-scale challenges
- Design smart traffic and load management to keep performance steady during viral spikes, large events, and global campaigns
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and automation that spots and fixes issues before they affect users
- Lead the creation of reliability frameworks for topology mapping, capacity planning, automated recovery, and disaster readiness
- Continuously refine system architecture for better performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability
- Apply chaos engineering, fault injection, and failure simulations to stress-test our systems
- Use A/B testing to measure the real-world impact of your improvements
- Mentor engineers and help set the team's technical direction
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years in backend, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, C++, or similar
- Solid grasp of distributed systems, networking, and fault-tolerant design
- Experience with Linux/Unix and large-scale infrastructure (cloud or on-prem)
- Proven track record delivering high-availability systems in production
- Strong debugging, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and writing skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with video platforms, streaming, or CDN optimization
- Background in highly reliable production systems
- Knowledge of service mesh, edge routing, or traffic shaping at scale
- Hands-on experience with chaos engineering and incident response
- Strong system design and technical leadership skills
- Excellent communication and ability to work across global teams
Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:
4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
4.5/5 in supportive management
100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
100% would recommend this company to other women
100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.