Senior Big Data Storage and Computing Engineer, Recommendation Data Ecosystem

About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, 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 users we serve. Join us.

Team Introduction
Our team plays a crucial role in the data ecosystem of the TikTok Recommendation System, focusing on creating offline and real-time data storage solutions for large-scale recommendation, search, and advertising businesses, serving over 1 billion users. The core goals of the team are to ensure high system reliability, uninterrupted service, and smooth data processing. We are committed to building a storage and computing infrastructure that can adapt to various data sources and meet diverse storage requirements, ultimately providing efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly data storage and management tools for the business.

Responsibilities

1. Architecture Design and Implementation: Design and implement offline and real-time data architectures for large-scale recommendation, search, and advertising systems based on Paimon and Flink. Ensure efficient data processing and storage to meet the strict requirements of the business for data timeliness and accuracy.

2. System Construction and Optimization: Design and implement flexible, scalable, stable, and high-performance storage systems and computing models. Use Paimon as the storage foundation and combine it with the powerful computing capabilities of Flink. Continuously optimize system performance to cope with the challenges brought by business growth.

3. Troubleshooting and Stability Assurance: Be responsible for troubleshooting production systems. For problems that occur in the Paimon-Flink architecture during operation, design and implement necessary mechanisms and tools, such as data consistency assurance and exception recovery, to ensure the overall stability of the production system.

4. Distributed System Construction: Build industry-leading distributed systems, including offline and online storage based on Paimon and batch and stream processing frameworks based on Flink, providing solid and reliable infrastructure support for massive data and large-scale business systems.