Software Engineer - TikTok BRIC (Singapore)

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The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team of TikTok, is missioned to:

• Protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers.
• Secure platform health and authenticity of community experience .
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to improve TikTok infrastructures, services, tools and algorithms, towards a higher standard of privacy and security.

The BRIC team works to measure and minimize the damage implied by inauthentic behaviors on TikTok and its extended platforms, covering multiple classical and novel integrity/security areas such as fake accounts, fake traffic, spam, scraping, cyberbullying, live room risks, incentive fraud, monetization abuse, etc.

In this team, you will have a unique opportunity to:

• Have first-hand experience contributing to TikTok's key security initiatives.
• Build scalable, resilient, intelligent integrity solutions that are also privacy-safe and user-friendly.
• Solve product and technical challenges that are often first-seen and highly adversarial. Both quick short term tactics and long term strategical moves are expected at various paces.
• Be part of a diverse and enthusiastic global workforce, grow with and learn from security and integrity experts across Asia, Europe, North America, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Work on infrastructure and tools to enable construction, deployment, and serving of risk defence algorithms and machine learning models at scale. Improve capacities of risk prevention, perception and remediation across various TikTok businesses.
• Build tools and automated procedures to support risk analytics and defence enforcement.
• Keep risk control solutions state-of-art in front of data security, modularisation, privacy and compliance. Help improve end-to-end risk service/platform/tooling SLA.

Qualifications

Minimun Qualification:

• Bachelor's or degrees above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Programming Language, High Performance Computing, Security Research or other relevant majors.
• Solid coding skills. Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, C++, Rust; can quickly pick up others.
• 2+ years of industry experience in building distributed backend systems at scale. Successful tracking records in solving infrastructure pain-points (e.g. complex I/O requirements). Strong coding (backend, infra, algorithm) and system design ability.

Preferred Qualification:

• Ability to think critically and objectively, reason rationally, and communicate in a result-oriented, data-driven manner
• Familiarity with machine learning infrastructure, business risk platforms, recommendation platforms, or similar high-performance systems.

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.

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