Big Data Engineer Graduate (TikTok Recommendation Architecture) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

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Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems.
• Design and implement flexible, scalable, and high-performance storage and computing systems.
• Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system.
• Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems.
• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software.
• Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Visualize, interpret, and report data findings and may create data reports as well.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Final year graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related technical discipline.
• Familiar with many open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive, Flink, FlinkSQL, Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
• Familiar with Java, C ++ and other programming languages.
• Strong coding and trouble shooting ability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with a strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver.
• Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.

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