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TikTok's Privacy & Data Protection Organization is expanding our Privacy Validation and Detection Engineering (VaDE) Team. TikTok's Privacy VaDE Team is responsible for validating potential privacy gaps, developing robust detections to enable continuous privacy monitoring, and providing technical engineering support during urgent incident & inquiry response efforts.

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Privacy VaDE Team, you will be responsible for assessing and enhancing the privacy and data protection measures within our organization. Your primary focus will be on developing detection methods to monitor for the presence of privacy gaps. Leveraging your expertise in data protection and software development, you will play a vital role in safeguarding the privacy of our users' information and ensuring compliance with relevant data privacy laws.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Privacy Detection: Develop robust detection methods to continuously assess and monitor for gaps in our privacy posture.
2. Incident Response and Data Breach Management: Assist in privacy-related incident and inquiry response related efforts. Perform technical investigations on privacy incidents, identify root causes, and recommend mitigation and remediation actions to prevent future occurrences.
3. Data Protection Compliance:
Stay up-to-date with global privacy regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, or other relevant data protection laws.
Ensure our organization's practices align with applicable privacy laws and standards.
Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to maintain and improve privacy policies and procedures.
Work closely with development and product teams to incorporate privacy best practices into the design and development of new products and features. Advocate for "privacy by design" principles to embed privacy considerations throughout the product development lifecycle.
4. Documentation and Reporting:
Maintain detailed records of privacy assessments, testing, detections, and related activities. Generate regular reports for management and stakeholders, providing insights on privacy risks.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Familiarity with core privacy concepts such as data minimization, purpose limitation, data sovereignty, transparency, and data retention.
- Proven software development experience involving large scale data environments with an emphasis on building detection systems.
- Experience using Go to build scalable services capable of handling large volumes of data. Experience using SQL and/or Python to develop large scale data pipelines.
- Proven experience in privacy assessments, data protection, and compliance.
- In-depth knowledge of global privacy regulations and standards, including GDPR, CCPA, etc.
- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, able to find creative solutions to complex problems with minimal guidance or direction.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with privacy-enhancing technologies and data anonymization techniques.
- Strong offensive security & privacy testing skills with a focus on privacy concerns.
- Familiarity with web and mobile security concepts, including OWASP Top 10.
- Excellent understanding of data handling processes, data flows, and data lifecycle management.
- Strong commitment to ethics and confidentiality in dealing with sensitive data.
- Relevant certifications in privacy and data protection (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, OSCP) are 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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $355000 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.