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About the Team
The TikTok Privacy team focuses on delivering testing framework, testing and debug tools, privacy governance platform, to ensure high quality and stability of privacy projects and privacy product. We look forward to your joining.

Our mission is to protect personal data and privacy for billions of users on TikTok platform, let users explore, create and connect with each other with trust. On the path of constructing and consolidating a reliable and resilient tool, framework, architecture and relative workflow, you will face challenges of ensuring high quality and stability with global multi-datacenter deployment, high-concurrency micro service, and you will face global cooperation.

As a software engineer, you will work on a specific privacy project critical to TikTok's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate or manage an offshore team.

1. To take charge of privacy protection and data security platform development, and deeply take part in privacy platform infrastructure optimization.
2. To take charge of providing a productized solution, with multiple tools and components such as privacy algorithm , design, security toolkit, and workflow, mitigating security risk.
3. To investigate cutting-edge research results, explore available new solutions to eradicate existing privacy pain points.
4. To drive the evolution of architecture continuously.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
1. Proficient in one mainstream programming language: C++/Java/Golang/etc, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems,Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
2. Familiar with various design and architectural patterns, understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application, UML modeling.
3. Familiar with classic mainstream databases: Mysql/redis/mongodb/Hbase/Hive and messaging systems such as kafka/rocketmq.

Preferred Qualifications:
Familiar with micro service architecture, experience with data tagging/ access control/ code lineage tracing/ data governance is a plus but not a must.
Experience with cross cultural communication.

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.