Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Systems

TikTok; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in Oslo seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for Risk Systems to design and scale defense infrastructure across platforms, focusing on accuracy and performance.

You will collaborate with BRIC and cross-functional teams to build ML-enabled risk controls, deploy at scale, and improve privacy and security across the product ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in CS/CE or related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience.
• Solid engineering skills and ability to build large-scale systems.
• Bonus for ML infrastructure familiarity.
• Ability to think critically, communicate clearly, and work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable risk defense infrastructure and ML models.
• Develop tools and automate risk analytics and enforcement.
• Keep risk solutions state-of-the-art in security and privacy.

Skills

Strong backend engineering skills

Experience with large-scale systems

Proficiency in Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/CE/related field

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

Storm

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Systems

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 Mumbai 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.

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team is missioned to:

• Protect TikTok users including and beyond content consumers creators advertisers


• Secure platform health and community experience authenticity


• Build infrastructures platforms and technologies as well as to collaborate with many cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

The BRIC team works to minimize the damage of inauthentic behaviors on TikTok platforms (e.g. TikTok CapCut Resso Lark) covering multiple classical and novel community and business risk areas such as account integrity engagement authenticity anti spam API abuse growth fraud live streaming security and financial safety (ads or e-commerce) etc.

In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first‑hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives especially in building scalable and robust intelligent and privacy‑safe secure and product‑friendly systems and solutions. Our challenges are not some regular day‑to‑day technical puzzles -- You'll be part of a team that's developing novel solutions to first‑seen challenges of a non‑stop evolvement of a phenomenal product eco‑system. The work needs to be fast transferrable while still down to the ground to making quick and solid differences.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructures to enable construction deployment and serving at scale of risk defense algorithms and machine learning models. Unblock and improve capacities of risk prevention perception and remediation across various TikTok businesses.


• Build tools and automate procedures to support risk analytics and defense enforcement.


• Keep risk control solutions state‑of‑art on fronts of data security modularization privacy and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or degrees above in Computer Science Computer Engineering Programming Language High Performance Computing Security Research or other relevant majors with at least 3 YOE


• Solid engineering skills and ability to build large scale systems. Proficiency in one or more tools of Linux Hadoop Hive Spark Storm can quickly pick up others.


• Bonus given to familarity with machine learning infrastrcuture or applications or social/content platform realtime stream computing systems.


• Ability to think critically objectively rationally. Reason and communicate in result‑oriented data‑driven manner. High autonomy.

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 [emailprotected] .