Backend Engineer (Risk Systems)

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform is seeking candidates for the Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team in Singapore. This role involves developing tools and infrastructure for risk defense algorithms while ensuring data security and compliance. Ideal candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree in relevant fields with strong coding skills and experience in distributed systems. The position offers unique challenges and opportunities to drive impact in a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or above in related fields.
• Solid coding skills and experience with distributed systems.
• Strong industry experience in building backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and infrastructure for risk defense algorithms.
• Develop automated procedures for risk analytics.
• Maintain data security and compliance for risk control solutions.

Skills

Solid coding skills

Experience with distributed systems

Proficiency in Linux

Knowledge of Spark

Knowledge of Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant major

Tools

Go

Rust

Flink

Job description

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

• To protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers;
• By securing platform health and community experience authenticity;
• Through building 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, covering multiple classic and novel community and business risk areas such as account integrity, engagement authenticity, anti‑spam, API and growth health, 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

• Work on infrastructure and tools to enable construction, deployment, and serving of risk defence algorithms and machine learning models at scale. Improve capacities of risk prevention, perception and remediation across various TikTok businesses.
• Build tools and automated procedures to support risk analytics and defence enforcement.
• Keep risk control solutions state‑of‑art on fronts of data security, modularisation, privacy and compliance. Help improve end‑to‑end risk service/platform/tooling SLA.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or degrees above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Programming Language, High Performance Computing, Security Research or other relevant majors.
• Solid coding skills and experience with building distributed systems. Proficiency in one or more tools of Linux, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes; can quickly pick up others.
• Experience of strong industry experience in building distributed backend systems at scale. Successful tracking records in solving infrastructure pain‑points (e.g. complex I/O requirements). Strong coding (backend, infra, algorithm) and system design ability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus given to familiarity with machine learning infrastructure or applications, or social/content platform realtime stream computing systems.
• Bonus given to proficient user of Go or Rust.
• Consistently showing ownership. Proactive and skillful in communication.
• Experience from a large‑scale internet business.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short‑form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, 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.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.