Join us.

Our Data Platform Business Partnering team is at the core of TikTok E-Commerce business, responsible for generating tremendous amount of data and providing accessing services and applications. We empower many business & engineering teams to analyze and develop innovative strategies and products driving business growth. We are looking for passionate and talented backend engineers to join us to drive the future of E-Commerce together.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do
- Develop highly-scalable, engine-agnostic, self-serve interface development tool on top of cutting-edge OLTP/OLAP warehouses.
- Design and develop innovative data applications to maximize usage among internal & external users.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and engine teams to ensure scalability and stability of our services and applications.
- Support data engineering and product engineering teams to design and optimize data accessing interfaces among various engines.
- Develop best-in-class engineering practices across all data platform disciplines.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient in developing highly scalable backend services and system by using at least one of the programming languages (Java, Golang, Scala, C++ or Python).
- Familiar with developing backend data applications or services on top of batch or streaming data pipelines (Hadoop/Kafka/Flink/Spark/Airflow) or with OLAP/OLTP warehouse/datalake engines (S3/Athena/MySQL/Abase/Presto/Doris/Clickhouse).
- Experience in data structure, algorithm design and analysis, data security and highly scalable systems design.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in LLM application development is a plus.

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 dataecommerce.accommodations@tiktok.com.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136000 - $280000 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.