Software Engineer Graduate (Ads Delivery) - 2027 Start
Aug 3, 2026 San Jose
About us
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
- Size: 10,000+ employees
- Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet
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
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Responsibilities
The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enables advertisers and users to foster more awareness of their brand to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. 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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
- Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
- Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
- Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
- Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.
- Explore and productionize LLM/foundation-model applications in delivery: e.g., LLM-based root-cause analysis of delivery anomalies, natural-language interfaces for campaign.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to make clear engineering trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on ads delivery experience in pacing, allocation, forecasting, traffic strategy, or guaranteed delivery, and familiarity with reservation or guaranteed product models.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 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.
The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enables advertisers and users to foster more awareness of their brand to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. 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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
- Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
- Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
- Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
- Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.
- Explore and productionize LLM/foundation-model applications in delivery: e.g., LLM-based root-cause analysis of delivery anomalies, natural-language interfaces for campaign.
Minimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to make clear engineering trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on ads delivery experience in pacing, allocation, forecasting, traffic strategy, or guaranteed delivery, and familiarity with reservation or guaranteed product models.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enables advertisers and users to foster more awareness of their brand to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. 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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
- Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
- Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
- Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
- Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.
- Explore and productionize LLM/foundation-model applications in delivery: e.g., LLM-based root-cause analysis of delivery anomalies, natural-language interfaces for campaign.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to make clear engineering trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on ads delivery experience in pacing, allocation, forecasting, traffic strategy, or guaranteed delivery, and familiarity with reservation or guaranteed product models.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 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.
Responsibilities
ResponsibilitiesThe Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enables advertisers and users to foster more awareness of their brand to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.
We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. 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 our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
- Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
- Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
- Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
- Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.
- Explore and productionize LLM/foundation-model applications in delivery: e.g., LLM-based root-cause analysis of delivery anomalies, natural-language interfaces for campaign.
Qualifications
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to make clear engineering trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on ads delivery experience in pacing, allocation, forecasting, traffic strategy, or guaranteed delivery, and familiarity with reservation or guaranteed product models.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
Additional Information
- Salary: $128,000 – $256,000
- Posted: Aug 3, 2026