Data Engineer, Data Cycling Center - USDS

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.

About the Team:
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. The Data Cycling Center team within the US Data Security Tech & Product department of TikTok supports the development of large-scale data pipelines for machine learning and analytical solutions related to unstructured data. 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.

About the Role:
As an Data Engineer, you will have significant responsibility and influence in shaping the Data Cycling Center's strategic direction. This role is inherently multi-functional, and the ideal candidate will work across disciplines. We are looking for someone with a love for data and the ability to iterate quickly. This position involves working with small engineering teams to develop large-scale Data Pipelines for Machine Learning and Analytical solutions using Big Data technologies. Successful candidates will have strong engineering skills and communication and a belief that data-driven processes lead to phenomenal products.

Responsibilities
What You'll Need:

• The perfect candidate will have strong data infrastructure and data architecture skills, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, strong project management leadership, and a strong vision for how data engineering can proactively improve companies.
• Experience working cross-functionally with business stakeholders, engineering, product, and SRE teams to understand business requirements and convert that into technical requirements, including developing prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of data and analytics solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Work with business stakeholders, engineering, product and SRE teams to understand business requirements and convert that into technical requirements, including developing prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of data and analytics solutions.
• Extract data from various sources such as APIs, HIVE tables and other structured and unstructured data sources to process and store large volumes of data ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and security.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources to ensure data is easily accessible and can be used effectively by other members of the organization.
• Implement and monitor quality control measures to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, such as data dictionaries, data flow diagrams, and system documentation, to ensure efficient and effective data management and analysis.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or another quantitative field
• 2+ years of experience working with data analytics and data engineering, including experience with data cleaning and preprocessing, data analysis and dashboard development.
• 2+ years of proficiency in distributed data processing using Big Data technologies like Spark/Scala, Java, Hadoop/HDFS/AWS/S3, Cassandra and Kafka
• Proficiency in data modeling, data design, SQL, and NoSQL databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a consumer web or mobile company
• Strong background in algorithms and data structures
• Experience working with PII and GDPR data
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical partners
• Ability to deliver consistent high quality results while working in a fast paced environment
• Passionate, curious, and seeking to tackle every day problems with innovation

Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or support.

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 https://shorturl.at/ktJP6.

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137750 - $237500 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.