Big Data Engineer Graduate (TikTok Recommendation Architecture) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform in Singapore is seeking a recent graduate to join their Recommendation Architecture Team. The role involves designing scalable data architecture and troubleshooting production systems. Candidates must have a strong background in software development, knowledge of languages like Java and C++, and familiarity with big data frameworks. This position offers a chance to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, with opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Stock options

Career growth opportunity

Flexible hours

Paid leave

Positive team atmosphere

Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a strong background in relevant technical disciplines.
• Familiarity with big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka.
• Strong coding and troubleshooting skills in Java and C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement offline data architecture for recommendation systems.
• Troubleshoot production systems to ensure overall stability.
• Develop and implement analytics applications for data transformation.

Skills

Java

C++

Data mining

Natural language processing

Agile development

Education

Final year or recent graduate in Software Development or related fields

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Job description

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. 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.

Job highlights

Yoga and fitness, Stock options, Positive team atmosphere, Career growth opportunity, Paid leave, Flat organization, 100+ mil users, Industry experts, Competitive compensation, Flexible hours

Responsibilities

About the Team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building and optimizing the architecture of the recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for TikTok users. The team focuses on optimizing the recommendation system architecture, ensuring stability and high availability, and improving the performance of both online services and offline data flows. Collaborating with the algorithm team, we work to enhance recommendation effectiveness and user experience, boost system performance while reducing costs, build data and service mid-platforms, and realize flexible and scalable high-performance storage and computing systems.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

- Design and implement reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems.

- Design and implement flexible, scalable, and high-performance storage and computing systems.

- Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system.

- Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems.

- Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software.

- Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets.

- Visualize, interpret, and report data findings and may create data reports as well.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

- Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related technical discipline.

- Familiar with many open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive, Flink, FlinkSQL, Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.

- Familiar with Java, C ++ and other programming languages.

- Strong coding and trouble shooting ability.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with a strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver.

- Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.

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