Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Signal and Privacy - Infra

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 Ads Measurement Signal and Privacy team (MSP) is missioned to build our security and governance infrastructure and process for the ads system end-to-end while making sure our platform with large volume of various signals and data are constantly compliant with regional regulations across the world. The team will be responsible for exploring and implementing cutting-edge privacy-enhancing technologies to protect our users while keeping TikTok a free and creative community. You will be a key player in data privacy, protection, security and managing cross-functional programs to continuously improve the process.

Responsibility
1. Responsible for building a graph-based system architecture in advertising business scenarios, establishing innovative R&D, delivery, and O&M models to achieve intelligent resource orchestration.
2. Participate in developing new capabilities such as graph execution engines, hot updates for operators, and graph-based delivery systems, while driving business abstraction and refactoring of critical modules in advertising systems.
3. Break down long-term goals into actionable implementation paths, organize and lead project teams to build a graph-based Serverless infrastructure foundation.
4. Implement operator-driven computational orchestration for advertising systems using engineering models, continuously optimize system throughput and latency to deliver tangible business benefits.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant technical field, with related working experience.
• Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Go, C++, Java, Go, Python.
• Good communication and teamwork skills and able to work under pressure.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience collaborating with compliance and policy teams, government entities, external privacy-focused community members and members of the press.
• Experience with cutting-edge data privacy security technologies, such as differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, federated learning etc. Specific production practices are preferred.
• Experience in Ads domain.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in Ads domain.
• Experience with building large-scale ranking infrastructure.

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 $145000 - $250000 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.