With over 1.2 billion users worldwide, WeChat is changing the mobile landscape by connecting people, services, and businesses in China and around-the world. The WeChat team in Singapore is responsible for managing and growing our core product including messaging and social networking for users worldwide (excluding the Chinese mainland).
Join the WeChat team and play an impactful role in keeping people around the world connected, help redefine how people use their mobile devices to communicate and interact online, and understand user behavior and preferences of users worldwide.
About the Role
WeChat is seeking software engineers with expertise in backend and web frontend development to join the team. Candidates should already have experience in traditional 3-tier architecture (presentation, application, database), fullstack web development experience via a Node.js framework (Vue.js preferred) in addition to traditional software development experience in a compiled language such as Golang/C/C++/Rust. The role will work closely with data scientists, data engineers, security engineers, test engineers, DevOps engineers, and project managers to help develop internal tools and security systems for keeping WeChat users worldwide safe.
- Ensure site reliability by managing the deploy, scaling, and maintanence of new and existing online services that connect over a billion users around the world
- Leverage your engineering skills while working directly with developers in order to help test and diagnose issues with newly deployed services, infrastructure resources, or code before and after they reach the production environment
- Manage high severity incidents and incidents impacting end users by focusing on service monitoring, alerts, and rapid recovery
- Use stress testing to help measure, tune, and optimize system performance and reliability for a wide variety of services
- Develop and maintain automation tools/systems to help eliminate repetitive manual operations and ensure better site reliability
- Produce and maintain documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to more efficiently and reliably handle regular operations in conjunction with colleagues around the world
- Engineering, or related fields
- Prior work experience in Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps for a major, public-facing internet service
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the programming languages: Bash, Go, Python
- Good command of Linux environment with deep understanding of the Linux operating system, including kernel, memory, processes, threads, static / shared libraries, IPC, RPCs, and signals
- Understanding of standard networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, SSL, TCP/IP, and ICMP
- Experience in large-scale distributed environments. Familiarity with distributed systems including the CAP theorem and microservices.
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Zabbix
- Strong sense of ownership, reliability, and integrity demonstrated
- Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes via automation
- Fast learning ability and a good team player
- Fluency in both English and Mandarin to deal with international stakeholders and stakeholders who are based in HQ
As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
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What We Do
Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of Internet users.
Our communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks.
Our high performance advertising platform helps brands and marketers reach out to hundreds of millions of consumers in China.
Our financial technology and business services support our partners' business growth and assist their digital upgrade.
We invest heavily in talent and technological innovation, actively participating in the development of the Internet industry.
Tencent was founded in Shenzhen, China, in 1998, and listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since June 2004.
