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TikTok

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data-E-Commerce Governance & Experience

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, 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.

Data-E-Commerce Governance & Experience team will build state-of-art large-scale, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems to support complex content and product moderation business processes. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to fully utilize your expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design capabilities to manage complex technical challenges at scale.
We embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. We encourage close collaboration while promoting self-direction.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do
- Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services from design, development, capacity planning, and launch reviews to deployment, operation, and optimizations;
- Design and implement state-of-art service framework that provides robust and flexible integration capabilities for machine learning models and business policies;
- Optimize system scalability, reliability, sustainability, velocity, and architecture efficiency;
- Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline;
- 3+ years experience working with Linux systems, and development experience in JavaScript, Python, Go, C++, or related languages;
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with e-commerce or content moderation systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and collaboration skills;
- Ability to deep dive into complex technical problems;

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].