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Software Engineer - USDS

TikTok.com

Office

San Jose, California, United States

Full Time

Our team of US Tech Services Department at TikTok supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale data centers, managing the life cycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and are reliable.

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to be the architect and builder of our core services. This role is dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance server-side systems that drive our platform's functionality and stability.

Key Responsibilities:
- Core Service Development: Design, build, and deploy production-grade, highly concurrent services
- System Scalability & Reliability: Implement best practices for ensuring system reliability, performance tuning, and optimizing application efficiency under heavy load.
- Infrastructure and Operations: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrate services with monitoring and logging tools.
- Architectural Design: Participate in technical design reviews, identifying and addressing technical debt, and defining future system architecture to support long-term growth.

Software Engineer - USDS

Office

San Jose, California, United States

Full Time

January 16, 2026