Tech Lead (Distributed Graph Database),Cloud Infrastructure

TikTok

Singapore

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

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

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. The Infrastructure NoSQL team supports all mid-platform and business lines in Tiktok, operating across tens of thousands of servers and dealing with data far beyond the PB level. We have self-developed distributed key-value/caching systems, globally distributed tables storage systems and massive graph database products. Combined with the industry's leading hardware and software stack technology, we strive for the continuous evolution of the next generation of NoSQL products. You will be responsible for the technical research and development of our self-developed graph database system. We are committed to building a globalized, high-performance, low-cost, and cloud native distributed table system to provide rich features for our applications. Joining our team, you can expect to have a very structured and thorough training plan, as well as the opportunity to undertake a larger working scope whilst giving enough space to grow and develop your career. We look forward to your application. Responsibilities - Lead the team to build distributed graph-databases, distributed query engines and distributed storage engines. Combine with graph models to provide better solutions for social networking, recommendation, and knowledge graphs under massive concurrent query requests and data volume; - Play a key role in driving project objectives and execution management, architecture design and code reviews, define long term technical roadmap for the team, and demonstrate technical leadership; - Recruit, manage, mentor, and provide technical leadership for team of software engineers; - Work closely with stakeholder teams to identify business pain points, continuously optimize and improve customer experience, team reputation, and impact. Qualifications - Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields; - 6+ years of professional software development experience; - Strong with C++/Golang/Java/Python program development (at least one), pursue high-quality code and focused on code engineering quality; - Solid knowledge of Linux system, proficient in multi-threading, network programming, and distributed development in any programming language; - Good communication skills, able to lead and drive projects effectively. Familiar with team and project management methodologies and approaches. Preferred Qualifications - Experience in technical management of a software engineering team; - In-depth research and industry experience in large-scale distributed graph storage systems and platforms, such as TAO/Dragon/Neo4j/TigerGraph/JanusGraph; - Contributor/Committer or PMC of the open-source community is a plus.

What are TikTok perks and benefits

Lactation facilities

Fertility

Unconscious bias training

Networking

Succession planning

Diversity recruiting

Diversity performance

Short term disability

Paid paternity

Paid maternity

Paid adoptive

About the company

TikTok

Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

As the leading destination for short-form mobile video, our platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community. In a world that feels more divided than ever, we are here to inspire creativity and bring joy. We do this by embracing change, thriving in ambiguity, and always looking for solutions.

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

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.