Privacy Validation Engineer: Automate Data-Protection Checks

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Privacy Validation Engineer to join the Privacy Data Protection Office in Singapore. You will help build automated privacy verification systems and end-to-end data retention validation across the data lifecycle.

You’ll work with engineering, legal, compliance, and data governance teams to identify risks and improve privacy protection across the tech stack. The role emphasizes scalable validation platforms, observable controls, and measurable privacy governance.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in a relevant field such as Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Cybersecurity.
• Fundamental knowledge of distributed systems and data protection concepts, with understanding of frontend-backend-data interaction.

Responsibilities

• Build automated and intelligent privacy verification systems to assess whether data protection policies and controls are effectively implemented across TikTok’s technology ecosystem.
• Design and implement end-to-end verification of data protection requirements, with initial focus on data retention across data collection, transmission, storage, processing, and deletion.
• Build automated and intelligent privacy validation capabilities to verify whether data protection policies and controls are effectively implemented, with initial focus on end-to-end data retention verification.
• Design, develop, and execute functional testing for privacy-related features across mobile applications (iOS/Android), web frontend, backend services, and data processing pipelines.
• Develop test automation, validation tools, and internal frameworks/platforms, collaborating with automation and performance testing teams to improve testing productivity, coverage, and scalability across multiple technology stacks.
• Collaborate with engineering, legal, compliance, and data governance teams to collect privacy governance facts, identify systemic risks, and provide actionable insights to improve privacy protection and project quality.

Skills

Privacy

Distributed systems

Testing

Problem solving

Communication

Privacy governance

Redis

NSQ

ZeroMQ

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Hive

Spark

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering/CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

Redis

NSQ

ZeroMQ

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Hive

Spark

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Privacy Validation Engineer to join the Privacy Data Protection Office in Singapore. You will help build automated privacy verification systems and end-to-end data retention validation across the data lifecycle.

You’ll work with engineering, legal, compliance, and data governance teams to identify risks and improve privacy protection across the tech stack. The role emphasizes scalable validation platforms, observable controls, and measurable privacy governance.