Technical Lead - TikTok Privacy & Security
Sep 18, 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
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4.5/5 in supportive management
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100% would recommend this company to other women
100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
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Responsibilities
About Us
The TikTok Eng-Privacy and Security-Product-Teen Experiences plays a vital role in building regulatory-compliant, user-centric privacy solutions for teens on TikTok. Our mission is to earn the trust of TikTok users, regulators, and the broader community. We develop a wide range of privacy products spanning transparency, user and underage protection, user data and interaction controls, and more.
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Lead to guide the engineering team behind TikTok's privacy-focused teen experience initiatives. In this role, you will lead a group of talented engineers across full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your core responsibility is to foster seamless collaboration within the team and across cross-functional (XFN) partners-including Product Managers, User Researchers, Data Scientists, and QA. Through these teen experience efforts, your leadership will be instrumental in building lasting user trust.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and partner with Product to earn user trust through privacy transparency and privacy education features.
- Collaborate with PM and partner teams to shape the team's roadmap.
- Define and drive the team's technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements.
- Continuously improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor and grow team members, cultivating an environment that supports learning, development, and achievement for everyone.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Solid backend or full-stack development background, with a strong understanding of complex backend systems.
- Proven experience building, designing, and scaling user-facing products and their software architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration toward shared goals.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or building privacy features and solutions.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $254400 - $480000 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.
About Us
The TikTok Eng-Privacy and Security-Product-Teen Experiences plays a vital role in building regulatory-compliant, user-centric privacy solutions for teens on TikTok. Our mission is to earn the trust of TikTok users, regulators, and the broader community. We develop a wide range of privacy products spanning transparency, user and underage protection, user data and interaction controls, and more.
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Lead to guide the engineering team behind TikTok's privacy-focused teen experience initiatives. In this role, you will lead a group of talented engineers across full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your core responsibility is to foster seamless collaboration within the team and across cross-functional (XFN) partners-including Product Managers, User Researchers, Data Scientists, and QA. Through these teen experience efforts, your leadership will be instrumental in building lasting user trust.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and partner with Product to earn user trust through privacy transparency and privacy education features.
- Collaborate with PM and partner teams to shape the team's roadmap.
- Define and drive the team's technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements.
- Continuously improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor and grow team members, cultivating an environment that supports learning, development, and achievement for everyone.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Solid backend or full-stack development background, with a strong understanding of complex backend systems.
- Proven experience building, designing, and scaling user-facing products and their software architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration toward shared goals.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or building privacy features and solutions.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products.
About Us
The TikTok Eng-Privacy and Security-Product-Teen Experiences plays a vital role in building regulatory-compliant, user-centric privacy solutions for teens on TikTok. Our mission is to earn the trust of TikTok users, regulators, and the broader community. We develop a wide range of privacy products spanning transparency, user and underage protection, user data and interaction controls, and more.
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Lead to guide the engineering team behind TikTok's privacy-focused teen experience initiatives. In this role, you will lead a group of talented engineers across full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your core responsibility is to foster seamless collaboration within the team and across cross-functional (XFN) partners-including Product Managers, User Researchers, Data Scientists, and QA. Through these teen experience efforts, your leadership will be instrumental in building lasting user trust.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and partner with Product to earn user trust through privacy transparency and privacy education features.
- Collaborate with PM and partner teams to shape the team's roadmap.
- Define and drive the team's technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements.
- Continuously improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor and grow team members, cultivating an environment that supports learning, development, and achievement for everyone.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Solid backend or full-stack development background, with a strong understanding of complex backend systems.
- Proven experience building, designing, and scaling user-facing products and their software architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration toward shared goals.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or building privacy features and solutions.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $254400 - $480000 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
ResponsibilitiesAbout Us
The TikTok Eng-Privacy and Security-Product-Teen Experiences plays a vital role in building regulatory-compliant, user-centric privacy solutions for teens on TikTok. Our mission is to earn the trust of TikTok users, regulators, and the broader community. We develop a wide range of privacy products spanning transparency, user and underage protection, user data and interaction controls, and more.
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Lead to guide the engineering team behind TikTok's privacy-focused teen experience initiatives. In this role, you will lead a group of talented engineers across full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your core responsibility is to foster seamless collaboration within the team and across cross-functional (XFN) partners-including Product Managers, User Researchers, Data Scientists, and QA. Through these teen experience efforts, your leadership will be instrumental in building lasting user trust.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and partner with Product to earn user trust through privacy transparency and privacy education features.
- Collaborate with PM and partner teams to shape the team's roadmap.
- Define and drive the team's technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements.
- Continuously improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor and grow team members, cultivating an environment that supports learning, development, and achievement for everyone.
Qualifications
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Solid backend or full-stack development background, with a strong understanding of complex backend systems.
- Proven experience building, designing, and scaling user-facing products and their software architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration toward shared goals.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or building privacy features and solutions.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products.
Additional Information
- Salary: $254,400 – $480,000
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026