WXG - Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Description
WeChat is looking for Software Engineers to build the infrastructure software and internal platforms behind services used by more than a billion users worldwide. You will develop backend systems, DevOps platforms, automation frameworks, and engineering tools that improve deployment efficiency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and production reliability. This role is more software-engineering-focused than traditional operations roles, and is well suited for candidates who enjoy writing code to solve infrastructure and platform problems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build backend services, internal platforms, and engineering tools for infrastructure and production systems.
- Write high-quality code in Go and/or C++ to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release safety mechanisms.
- Build automation for disaster recovery, failover, rollback, and fault-tolerant service operation.
- Improve FaaS and platform capabilities to support scalable and efficient service development.
- Develop tools for observability, monitoring, and production diagnostics.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on system performance, resilience, and operational improvements.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong coding skills in Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
- Experience in backend development, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure-related projects.
- Familiarity with Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud infrastructure, FaaS, or infrastructure automation.
- Interest in DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and large-scale production systems.
- Familiarity with observability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, or release engineering.
- Fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders and teams based at headquarters
