Backend Software Engineer - Data Services, E-Commerce

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

Our Data Platform Business Partnering team is at the core of TikTok E-Commerce business, responsible for generating tremendous amount of data and providing accessing services and applications. We empower many business & engineering teams to analyze and develop innovative strategies and products driving business growth. We are looking for passionate and talented backend engineers to join us to drive the future of E-Commerce together.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do

1. Develop highly-scalable, engine-agnostic, self-serve interface development tool on top of cutting-edge OLTP/OLAP warehouses.
2. Design and develop innovative data applications to maximize usage among internal & external users.
3. Collaborate with infrastructure and engine teams to ensure scalability and stability of our services and applications.
4. Support data engineering and product engineering teams to design and optimize data accessing interfaces among various engines.
5. Develop best-in-class engineering practices across all data platform disciplines.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
2. Proficient in developing highly scalable backend services and system by using at least one of the programming languages (Java, Golang, Scala, C++ or Python).
3. Familiar with developing backend data applications or services on top of batch or streaming data pipelines (Hadoop/Kafka/Flink/Spark/Airflow) or with OLAP/OLTP warehouse/datalake engines (S3/Athena/MySQL/Abase/Presto/Doris/Clickhouse).
4. Experience in data structure, algorithm design and analysis, data security and highly scalable systems design.
5. Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
6. Experience in LLM application development is 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

Job Information:

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136000 - $280000 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.

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