At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time. We also build a search inspiration recommendation system for creators, providing them with insights based on real users' search queries. This key capability enriches both the quality and quantity of TikTok's search content ecology and enhances users' search experiences. We promote a culture of self-driven innovation, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.

Creative Search Insights (CSI) could provide creators with inspiration input, enrich the creation of videos that have popular topics, or lack resources in search, or satisfy users' search purposes, or have other search values. It could ultimately improve the user's search experience. So the search inspirations are based on real users' search queries in TikTok. Then the queries are checked, transformed and recommended to creators.

Responsibilities:
- Support business development of TikTok Search, provide the best search experience for TikTok users and further enable content growth.
- Performance & Stability: Build a fast and robust product by optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
- Search Engineering Infrastructure: Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine, Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
- Search Inspiration Recommendation System: Based on the understanding of users' queries in TikTok, build a fast and valuable recommendation system. Keep optimizing engineering performance and recommendation quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience of leading the development of large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Golang, Python and Java.

Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in software development with a focus on building backend services for large-scale consumer applications.
- Decent understanding of modern search/recommendation and machine learning systems and ability to apply machine learning algorithms to real business products and drive business growth.
- Industrial experience of leading cross-team engineering efforts, driving technical designs, acting as a tech lead for multiple key initiatives, as well as diving into hands-on work.
- Ability to partner closely with teams within the organization and with customers to execute on the vision for the long-term success of our product teams.

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.