Backend Software Engineer Graduate (Global LIVE Service Arch) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

With the enormous growth of live streaming in recent years, our mission is to inspire real-time interactions and help live streamers connect to people from all corners of the globe. We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build and optimize a real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming in TikTok. You will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for all live streamers and audience alike.

Global Live Service Arch's Major Objectives are,

1. Ensure Global Live to meet compliance requirements, and promote cross-team architecture governance.
2. Build Global Live architecture with stability, low-latency and resilience to support long-term business development
3. Optimize end-to-end stability and engineering efficiency

Our Key Problems To Solve: Under the strict Compliance requirements, how to construct Global Live platform with Stability, better Performance (Low-Latency and High-Concurrency), Resilience and Efficiency.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

You will

• Play a critical role in planning and leading large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for the iterative development and scale of early products - Participate in developing robust, efficient technology products that serve 1 billion users - Be a key member in improving architecture to ensure high stability and performance - Be Involved in researching and applying cutting-edge domain and technical knowledge into products which could benefit world wide TikTok users.