Tech lead- TikTok Search

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.

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our

platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true

of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy -

a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how

difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as

one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow

together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company,

and the communities we serve.

Join

us.

Our team is responsible for providing TikTok

search users with first-class search experience by building a

strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product

fast iteration and key feature development. In our team, you'll

have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on

TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be

a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user

request varies on this giant from time to time. We encourage a

culture of self-driven, intellectual curiosity, openness and

problem-solving.

Detailed responsibilities

include but not limited to :

1. Product

Development : Support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and

further enable the product growth.

2.

Performance & Stability : Build a fast and robust Search product

by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service

stability.

3. Search Engineering

Infrastructure : Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance

to ensure that the overall system operates

smoothly.

4. Search offline processing :

Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable

offline data support for Search Engine.

5.

Backend engineering team building, management and

development.

Qualifications

Job

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science,

Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors

skills, have industry experience in building backend services for

large-scale consumer-facing applications.

at coding, data structure and basic algorithm

Good team communication and collaboration

skills.

Preferred

Qualifications

modern Search system is built or / and how modern Search product

should be evolved.

building a consumer-facing Search product.

Experience in building a medium-size backend technical team from

scratch.

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.