TikTok
Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy Infrastructure
TikTok, Seattle, WA
Responsibilities
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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
At TikTok, we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users' privacy choices!
As TikTok Privacy & Security team, we are committed to protecting the personal privacy and data security of billions of TikTok users. Facing challenges of the global multi-data center with thousands of microservices, multiple storage (MySQL/Redis/Kafka/Hive), tech stacks, and a large scale R&D team, we will build various frameworks, architectures, platforms, and processes on top of this, to embed security and privacy protection into all designs of products and engineering.
As a software engineer, your responsibilities are:
- Work closely with our PMs & design team to define privacy friendly SDLC & design user friendly data governance platforms.
- Design approaches & implement privacy engineering solutions for data protection, control & compliance requirements throughout our product suite.
- Deeply involved in key data governance projects, addressing architecture & integration challenges for various business scenarios. Drive progress to ensure success of the projects.
- Investigate the cutting-edge industry progress of privacy engineering, explore feasible solutions to solve pain-points & tech challenges, continue to evolve privacy infrastructure.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of computer principles, familiar with general server architecture, skilled use of various data structures and algorithms, proficient in a programming language.
- Good business scenarios & requirements understanding, able to design reasonable technical solutions.
- Strong communication skills and teamwork spirit.
- With rigorous logical thinking.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above with 2 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience of privacy awareness process design for SDLC, AI model training.
- Experience of data processing control solutions like purpose limitation, access control etc.
- Experience of data protection solutions like data classification, data de-identification etc.
- Rich experience in Internet product architecture design.
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.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2
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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
At TikTok, we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users' privacy choices!
As TikTok Privacy & Security team, we are committed to protecting the personal privacy and data security of billions of TikTok users. Facing challenges of the global multi-data center with thousands of microservices, multiple storage (MySQL/Redis/Kafka/Hive), tech stacks, and a large scale R&D team, we will build various frameworks, architectures, platforms, and processes on top of this, to embed security and privacy protection into all designs of products and engineering.
As a software engineer, your responsibilities are:
- Work closely with our PMs & design team to define privacy friendly SDLC & design user friendly data governance platforms.
- Design approaches & implement privacy engineering solutions for data protection, control & compliance requirements throughout our product suite.
- Deeply involved in key data governance projects, addressing architecture & integration challenges for various business scenarios. Drive progress to ensure success of the projects.
- Investigate the cutting-edge industry progress of privacy engineering, explore feasible solutions to solve pain-points & tech challenges, continue to evolve privacy infrastructure.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of computer principles, familiar with general server architecture, skilled use of various data structures and algorithms, proficient in a programming language.
- Good business scenarios & requirements understanding, able to design reasonable technical solutions.
- Strong communication skills and teamwork spirit.
- With rigorous logical thinking.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above with 2 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience of privacy awareness process design for SDLC, AI model training.
- Experience of data processing control solutions like purpose limitation, access control etc.
- Experience of data protection solutions like data classification, data de-identification etc.
- Rich experience in Internet product architecture design.
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.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2