TikTok
Network Engineer - Physical Network Infrastructure
Job Description
Salary: £200,000 - 250,000 per year
Requirements:- Good understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, and MPLS-related technologies.
- Good understanding of network monitoring protocols and tools such as SNMP, Sflow/netflow, and telemetry.
- Familiar with data center network architecture such as CLOS.
- Hands-on experience with major network devices such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Huawei, and other mainstream vendors.
- Self-motivated with good communication and written skills.
- Team player with participation in our global network on-call rotation.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience based on three or more years of work experience.
- In-depth knowledge of network protocols and implementation in hyperscale data center networks.
- In-depth knowledge of MPLS-related traffic engineering technologies such as Segment Routing, RSVP, and LDP.
- In-depth knowledge of public cloud architecture such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Ali Cloud, and OCI.
- Familiar with mainstream commercial switch/router chipsets such as Broadcom and Barefoot.
- Good understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 coexistence technologies.
- Programming/scripting experience in Python or other languages.
- Design, build, operate, and optimize our global network, including backbone, data center, public cloud, and Edge/CDN.
- Work with cross-functional teams including compute, storage, database, and recommendation systems to drive the innovation and evolution of our network.
- Work with external vendors and ISPs for device and carrier selection, testing, and verification.
- Travel as required up to 15% to 30% of the time.
- AWS
- Azure
- Backbone
- Cloud
- Cisco
- GCP
- Hardware
- MPLS
- Network
- Python
- TCP/IP
More:
Our Network Engineering-Physical Network Infra team is part of our global technology organization, bringing together innovative ideas and technologies across network architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power some of the worlds most popular apps, including TikTok. Req ID: A204632.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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TikTok
London
IT
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£225,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 275% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks