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TikTok

Data Engineer - Data Platform

TikTok, San Jose, CA


Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, 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 communities we serve.
Join us.

Team Introduction
The Data Platform team works on building data infrastructures and data products to support business engineering teams at TikTok.

As a data engineer in the data platform team, you will have the opportunity to build, optimize and grow one of the largest data platforms in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on all kinds of systems in the data platform ecosystem. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibility
• Design and build data transformations efficiently and reliably for different purposes (e.g. reporting, growth analysis, and multi-dimensional analysis)
• Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business
• Establish solid design and best engineering practice for engineers as well as non-technical people

Qualifications
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in the Big Data technologies(Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.)
• Experience with performing data analysis, data ingestion and data integration
• Solid communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading) and architecting data systems
• Experience with schema design and data modeling
• Experience in writing, analyzing and debugging SQL queries
• Deep understanding of various Big Data technologies
• Passionate and self-motivated about technologies in the Big Data area

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 [redacted]