API Architect Engineer - Server-Arch Platform (Singapore)

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices, including Mountain View, Seattle Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

Platform is a team under the TikTok Server Architecture Department. Our responsibility is to accelerate business development and architecture governance/evolution by providing the right, standardized, future-oriented components and tools solutions

Job Responsibilities:
• Contribute to API/RPC compliance components, ensuring high stability and assisting the global business in adapting to increasingly stringent compliance requirements.
• Contribute to the API/RPC R&D process and governance platform, ensuring that related tools are easy to use, highly efficient, and capable of building high-quality interfaces, thereby facilitating collaboration.
• Contribute to the backend of the mobile files and other binary resource distribution system.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in proven ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance, and reliable software solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and logical thinking, with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and collaborate with new business partners.
• Passion for technology and engineering excellence, as well as effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Bonus point: Relevant experience including HTTP/RPC frameworks, service mesh/gateway agents, or other similar technologies.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.