Senior Software Engineer - TikTok Mobile Reliability, iOS - San Jose

$175,750 - $266,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

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About the position

TikTok mobile reliability team ensures TikTok apps have reliability, uptime appropriate to our users and have a fast rate of improvement. We are part of product foundation that makes product features and performance optimization possible. In addition, the team will establish and optimize the overall TikTok development process, and keep an ever-watchful eye on our apps performance. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing codebase, building infrastructure and automation tools. On the mobile reliability team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex challenges with scale, while using your expertise in mobile coding, algorithms, data analysis and large-scale mobile application design. Our culture of curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to our success. Reliability must be a joint effort throughout all teams in TikTok. We encourage people to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while still striving to create an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Improve the lifecycle of application development from design, to development and application releases.
• Engage in and improve production disaster management and recovery, developing platforms and frameworks to quickly mitigate mobile reliability issues remotely.
• Support teams through activities such as technical design consulting, developing platforms and frameworks, investigating and providing solutions to fix complex reliability issues.
• Develop and maintain our automation tools like static analyzers, reliability automation tests, data pipelines and monitors, reliability analysis tools.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Requirements

• 5 Years of Experience in iOS development
• Experience coding in one or more of the following programming languages: Objective-c, Swift
• Experience in building mobile applications and mobility solutions for native applications.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale iOS applications
• Experience coding in C, C++ or Python
• Ability to debug, optimize code and to automate tasks, large systems data analysis
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Ability to have a systematic problem-solving approach.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
• Approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
• 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
• 401K company match
• Gym and cellphone service reimbursements