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

e 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 [email protected].

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $175750 - $266000 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.