Global E‑Commerce Data Platform Engineer

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Singapore is seeking a data engineer to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures and to build batch and real-time data pipelines.

You will work with data warehousing, ETL, and analytics to deliver actionable insights for the business, collaborating across product, data, and engineering teams. The role emphasizes data quality, security, and production-grade pipelines, with opportunities to apply NLP and ML techniques to extract insights from large datasets.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering and 2 years of relevant experience in data engineering.
• Proficient in creating and maintaining complex ETL pipelines end-to-end while maintaining high reliability and security.
• Familiar with data warehouse concepts and have production experience in modeling design.
• Familiar with at least 1 distributed computing engine (e.g. Hive, Spark, Flink).
• Familiar with at least 1 NoSQL database is a plus (e.g. HBase).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage and manage internal and external stakeholders across all levels of seniority.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to build rapport across teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements and end-to-end designs into technical implementations and responsible for building batch and real-time data warehouse.
• Manage data modeling design, writing, and optimizing ETL jobs.
• Collaborate with the business team to build data metrics based on data warehouse.
• Responsible for building and maintaining data products.
• Involvement in rollouts, upgrades, implementation, and release of data system changes as required for streamlining of internal practices.
• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software.
• Apply data mining, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyse information from large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

Data modeling

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Hive

Spark

Flink

HBase

Job description

TikTok Singapore is seeking a data engineer to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures and to build batch and real-time data pipelines.

You will work with data warehousing, ETL, and analytics to deliver actionable insights for the business, collaborating across product, data, and engineering teams. The role emphasizes data quality, security, and production-grade pipelines, with opportunities to apply NLP and ML techniques to extract insights from large datasets.