Technology

Multimedia Software Engineer

Location
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Sydney

Employment Type
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Regular

Job Code
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A133049

Responsibilities

About the Team
Video & Edge is a top-tier video platform globally. It offers services like media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming. Our goal is to create industry-leading solutions for live streaming, video-on-demand, and real-time communication for TikTok, Dola, Lark, and other external products worldwide.
We mainly focus on the transmission network and multimedia processing parts. We also build a data foundation and analysis abilities, promote refined product operation, cut costs, and boost efficiency.
We're building the next - generation video processing platform and the biggest real - time transmission network to give great experiences to billions of users worldwide. If you join our team, you'll have the opportunity to handle large-scale network and extremely high-performance challenges around the world. At the same time, you can use your skills in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product and business teams to deeply understand requirements, use cases, and success metrics, translate high-level product requirements into scalable system architecture and technical solutions.
• Design and develop an AI-driven real-time multimedia processing platform (e.g., video/audio analysis, enhancement, and streaming). Build and optimize end-to-end pipelines for low-latency, high-throughput multimedia processing.
• Continuously monitor, evaluate, and improve system performance, quality, and reliability using data-driven approaches. Work on performance optimization across the stack, including latency, resource efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (algorithm, engineering, infrastructure, data, and product) to deliver high-quality solutions
• Ensure system robustness, observability, and maintainability in production environments

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
• High proficiency in C&C++.
• Solid understanding of multimedia fundamentals (audio/video processing, encoding/decoding, streaming and network protocol)
• Experience building or working with real-time systems with low-latency requirements
• Passionate, self-motivated, good teamwork skills, strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex requirements into technical solutions.
• High oral and written proficiency in English and Mandarin required: this role involves frequent communication with global teams, clients and stakeholders in English speaking regions as well as Mandarin speaking markets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or interest in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, 3D Graphics Rendering, Machine Learning
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience integrating models into production systems
• Working in international teams and across timezones effectively (US, Dublin, China, Singapore)

Job Information

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

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We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

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Diversity & Inclusion

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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.

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Acknowledgment of Country

In the spirit of reconciliation, TikTok acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.