Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform - Experimentation & Evaluation

TikTok

4.5

(6)

San Jose, CA

Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
  • We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.
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    Position summary

    ducts as well as hundreds of millions of users.

    • Design and build efficient, reliable data transformations for reporting, growth analysis, and multi-dimensional analytics
    • Design and implement scalable, robust, and extensible big data systems that support core products and experimentation use cases
    • Build and evolve platform services covering the full A/B testing lifecycle: experiment design, metrics computation, statistical analysis, evaluation, and launch decisions
    • Apply strong engineering practices and system design principles to create maintainable, high-quality systems used by both engineers and non-technical users
    • Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and partner teams to translate business problems into technical solutions
    • Explore and integrate LLM-based capabilities to improve platform intelligence, usability, and developer/product workflows

    Qualifications

    Minimum Qualifications

    • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
    • Strong back-end engineering skills
    • Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, or Flink
    • Experience with data analysis, data ingestion, and data integration
    • Solid communication and collaboration skills

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Industry experience building large-scale distributed systems in a production environment
    • Experience with ETL pipelines, data system architecture, schema design, and data modeling
    • Experience with front-end development and/or distributed big data systems (strong plus)
    • Experience in data privacy and security-related projects
    • Hands-on experience or strong interest in LLMs, including applying them to real product or platform use cases
    • Strong statistical foundations and familiarity with experimentation or A/B testing concepts

    Job Information

    [For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

    The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 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.

    Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
  • We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.