Big Data Development Engineer (Tea) - Data Platform

About the team:
Tea(Toutiao Event Analyze) is an in-house analytics platform that is heavily used by more than 10,000 employees globally. This is a data middle platform product built on user behavior data, providing data analysis services for various domestic and international businesses within ByteDance/TikTok, including Douyin, Toutiao, Xigua, TikTok, and more. It possesses robust capabilities to support exabyte-level massive data, trillion-level event volume, and millisecond-level response time, offering users simple, flexible, and high-performance data analysis services.
We are the global engineering team for Tea. We are passionate about building the best data analytics platform in the world and are looking for top-notch software engineers to join the talented team. We deliver Tea products to over ten regions worldwide, optimizing product performance based on the unique data and cultural characteristics of each region.

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for the deployment, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of big data platforms.
• Implement and optimize the infrastructure for big data storage, processing, and computation.
• Responsible for architectural design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of big data platforms.
• Analyze and resolve complex system performance and stability issues to ensure system reliability and stability.
• Write technical documentation to record system configurations and operational procedures.
• Compliance Requirement: Familiarity with and adherence to international data protection regulations; ability to formulate and execute compliance-oriented strategies.
• Global Multi-Environment Deployment and Operations: Experience in deploying and maintaining big data platforms across multiple global locations; familiarity with cross-geographical operational challenges.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with experience in software engineering, with 2 years of relevant experience.
• 2 years experience in big data platform operations, familiarity with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Clickhouse, etc.
• Solid programming skills, proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, Python).
• Strong foundation in computer science, familiarity with operating system principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong problem analysis and resolution skills, ability to respond quickly to emergencies.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, experience in project management is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of relevant experience as a data engineer
• 5 years experience in big data platform operations, familiarity with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Clickhouse, etc.

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.