Senior Platform R&D Engineer - Recommendation Systems

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunity

Paid leave

Flat organization

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a backend/ML engineering professional to design and optimize recommendation system architectures for global products. You will lead the end-to-end development of tooling, release workflows, and observability across multi-region environments.

The role emphasizes building scalable platforms, accelerating experiments to deployment, and driving data-driven improvements in a fast-growing tech environment. Singapore offices support collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Design intelligent development toolkits for large-scale recommendation systems.
• Develop gray release systems for safe, stable deployment workflows.
• Enhance observability for multi-region, multi-data center environments and establish end-to-end tracing.
• Build toolchains to accelerate end-to-end model development to deployment.
• Overhaul platform architectures and develop data intelligence assistants.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

3+ years of experience designing large-scale systems

Tools

Go

Python

C++

Job description

TikTok is seeking a backend/ML engineering professional to design and optimize recommendation system architectures for global products. You will lead the end-to-end development of tooling, release workflows, and observability across multi-region environments.

The role emphasizes building scalable platforms, accelerating experiments to deployment, and driving data-driven improvements in a fast-growing tech environment. Singapore offices support collaboration and growth.