Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Live Foundation (Sydney)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

About TikTok LIVE Foundation Team:
Our team aims to help TikTok's SMB merchants and creators obtain more diverse customer acquisition and business operation methods through live streaming by building product capabilities and providing creator services, and to offer professional live streaming content for users.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us and empower content understanding in SMB business. We are working on cutting-edge content understanding topics and engaging with industry recognition and intention recognition for our creators, enhancing LIVE content diversity and creator monetization.

Job Responsibilities
- Plan and lead large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for the iterative development and scale of early products
- Develop robust, efficient technology products that serve 1 billion users
- Lead and improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance, and reliability of the product
- Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
- Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture, improve R&D quality, efficiency and experience.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++.
- Experience building scalable, highly available, distributed and mission-critical systems.
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, data structures and algorithms
- In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka

Preferred Qualifications
- Able to work closely with diverse stakeholders and have good communication skills
- Self-driven, positive, cooperative and willing to keep learning at all times

About this role

Summary

Develop scalable backend systems for TikTok Live, enhancing content understanding and monetization processes

Job title

Backend Software Engineer

Experience level

mid level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Sydney, remote work not mentioned

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

GoPythonJavaC++distributed systemsMySQLRedisKafkasystem design

Preferred skills

stakeholder communicationself-drivenlearning attitude

Specializations

content understandinglive streamingdistributed systemssystem designcontent monetization
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Sydney NSW, Australia

On-site City