Technical Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

About TikTok U.S. Data Security
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security ("USDS") is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.

Why Join Us
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.

About the Team
TikTok is seeking a Performance & Capacity Engineer to join the Capacity & Optimization Engineering team to focus on site-wide performance and capacity optimization at the intersection of all Tiktok products and services, and all physical infrastructure (Servers, Data Centers, Network). This role will focus on creating and optimizing global and regional capacity plans at various altitudes to balance service, infrastructure, and business constraints by using Operations Research skills to build and improve mathematical optimization models and solutions. This engineer will help to ensure optimal operation of our infrastructure resources from both a cost and technology perspective, facilitating tens of billions of user requests, tens of exabytes of data, terabits/s of network flow.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities
- In partnership with Enterprise and other Solution architects, define solution architecture and technical context diagrams in alignment to business/technology strategy, specific initiative functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Work with the full software development lifecycle, utilizing emerging technologies and leading cloud teams to implement cloud design principles and develop cloud automation, interfaces, and architecture to support Cloud Native Engineering initiatives.
- Understanding, advocating and supporting the engineering/network strategy, as well as analyzing the servicing operations in compliance environments to detect deficiencies and recommend improvements.
- Leading, promoting and communicating domain architecture progress, outcomes and results.
- Participate in the evaluation and selection of standard technologies and/or products.
- Provide technical consultation, research, etc. for application development projects as needed.
- Plan and carry out Cloud architecture. Support client teams, respond to business opportunities, and deliver services.
- Support development team management and solution architects to ensure domain development teams compliance with the enterprise architecture standards, quality of code, adherence to metrics/targets.
- Identifying organizational resources, structures to support enterprise architecture.
- Support development team management and solution architects to ensure domain development teams compliance with the enterprise architecture standards, quality of code, adherence to metrics/targets.
- Ensure application developers have appropriate knowledge, experience, tooling, environments, and support in order to become a high performing team.
- Constantly keeping an eye on optimal utilization technology investments. Assists in the budgeting process.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in solution architect (optimization) or software engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient in full stack development using languages like C++, Java, Python, Node.js and JavaScript frameworks like Angular and React, and designing large scale software systems.
- Expertise in multiple-disciplinary server platform architecture and design.
- Experiences in cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle including virtualization, containerization, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Ability to analyze solutions from a full Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) perspective, including but not limited to: CAPEX, OPEX, the system constraints that drive design tradeoffs, technology, quality and serviceability.
- Effective communication skills to influence and partner across many Tiktok business and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry experience in cloud datacenter architecture, data center infrastructure and development on AWS experience Software development experience with Automation of QA processes a big plus.
- Knowledge of server technology, rack architecture and at-scale cloud infrastructure deployment.
- Experience with architectural solutions spanning across "On Cloud" and "On Prem".
- Technical understanding of server platform architecture, design and development, with emphasis on at scale deployment.
- Technical understanding of commodity storage or memory technologies (SSDs, HDDs, tape, DRAM etc.) and knowledgeable on storage and/or memory industry trends.
- Technical understanding of GPU, CPU architecture, design and development, with emphasis on power and performance and TCO analysis.
- Product Planning or Project Management experience.
- Experience and interest in building "Zero to One" - building systems and processes from scratch with ambiguous requirements and goals.
- Experience with technical infrastructure planning or capacity planning.
- Experience with large-scale technical infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Experience working in HW Infrastructure Engineering Groups.

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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