Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Anti-Automation

calable and robust, intelligent and privacy-safe, secure and product-friendly systems and solutions. Our challenges are not some regular day-to-day technical puzzles -- You'll be part of a team that's developing novel solutions to first-seen challenges of a non-stop evolvement of a phenomenal product eco-system. The work needs to be fast, transferrable, while still down to the ground to making quick and solid differences.

Responsibilities:

• Work on infrastructure and tools to enable construction, deployment, and serving of risk defense algorithms and machine learning models at scale. Improve capacities of risk prevention, perception and remediation across various TikTok businesses.
• Build tools and automated procedures to support risk analytics and defence enforcement.
• Keep risk control solutions state-of-art in front of data security, modularization, privacy and compliance. Help improve end-to-end risk service/platform/tooling SLA.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Solid coding skills and experience with building distributed systems. Proficiency in one or more tools of Linux, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes; can quickly pick up others.
• Experience of strong industry experience in building distributed backend systems at scale. Successful tracking records in solving infrastructure pain-points (e.g. complex I/O requirements). Strong coding (backend, infra, algorithm) and system design ability.
• Consistently showing ownership. Proactive and skillful in communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor or degrees above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Programming Language, High Performance Computing, Security Research or other relevant majors.
• Familiar with machine learning infrastructure or applications, or social/content platform realtime stream computing systems.
• Proficient in Go or Rust.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.