Senior Media Streaming Algorithm Engineer-TikTok Product Foundation
TikTok
Office
San Jose, California, United States
Full Time
Team Introduction
The Experience team is responsible for optimizing app experience related to performance for TikTok users. This team collaborates with all teams in the video creation and consumption ecosystem to provide end-to-end optimization solutions, including client, shooting, uploading, video playback, video delivery and player, etc.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement media streaming-related algorithms to improve the playback experience.
- Contribute to end-to-end media ecosystem design to improve the algorithmization of the multimedia system.
- Run controlled experiments on millions of streaming sessions to validate improvements.
- Work in areas related to video preload algorithms, media adaption algorithms, network bandwidth estimation, CDN traffic allocation algorithm, transmission protocol optimization etc.
The Experience team is responsible for optimizing app experience related to performance for TikTok users. This team collaborates with all teams in the video creation and consumption ecosystem to provide end-to-end optimization solutions, including client, shooting, uploading, video playback, video delivery and player, etc.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement media streaming-related algorithms to improve the playback experience.
- Contribute to end-to-end media ecosystem design to improve the algorithmization of the multimedia system.
- Run controlled experiments on millions of streaming sessions to validate improvements.
- Work in areas related to video preload algorithms, media adaption algorithms, network bandwidth estimation, CDN traffic allocation algorithm, transmission protocol optimization etc.
Senior Media Streaming Algorithm Engineer-TikTok Product Foundation
Office
San Jose, California, United States
Full Time
September 1, 2025