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Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Live Foundation (Sydney)

Sydney, Australia💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Building product capabilities for TikTok LIVE to empower SMB merchants and creators with diverse customer acquisition and business operation methods via live streaming.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer (System Architecture & Scalability)

Builds

Robust, efficient, and scalable technology products serving 1 billion users

Domain

Social Media / Live Streaming / Content Understanding

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, Python, Java, C++, distributed systems, high availability, system design, computer architecture, data structures, algorithms, MySQL, Redis, Kafka

Responsibilities

Plan and lead large-scale technical projects for early product iteration and scale, develop robust technology products, lead system design and architecture for stability and performance, collaborate with cross-functional teams for rapid delivery, contribute to engineering strategy and tooling.

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