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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The E-Commerce Governance & Experience team's mission is:
- Ensuring a safe and trustworthy marketplace for not only our buyers, but also our sellers and creators
- Enriching, Engaging and Empowering all customers by creating an exceptional experience through high quality products, content, and service
- Building state of the art ecosystem governance, data driven experience strategies, risk control solutions, operational processes as well as collaborating with many cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Backend Software Engineer at Data E-Commerce department will build state-of-art large-scale, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems to support complex content and product moderation, risk control, Large Language Models (LLM), etc. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to fully utilize your expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design capabilities to manage complex technical challenges at scale.
We embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. We encourage close collaboration while promoting self-direction.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Online Assessment
Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment through HackerRank.

Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services from design, development, capacity planning, and launch reviews to deployment, operation, and optimizations;
- Working closely with Algorithm engineers on bleeding edge machine learning models ranging from NLP, CV to Large Language Models (LLM);
- Design and implement state-of-art service framework that provides robust and flexible integration capabilities for machine learning models and business policies;
- Optimize system scalability, reliability, sustainability, velocity, and architecture efficiency;
- Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline;

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Linux systems, and development experience in JavaScript, Python, Go, C++, or related languages;
- Experience with e-commerce or content moderation systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and collaboration skills;
- Ability to deep dive into complex technical problems

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 $113500 - $177000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. 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.