Software Developer, Risk Data Mining - BRIC - Singapore

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is looking for a seasoned risk engineering professional to join the Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team. You will design and deploy algorithms and ML models to protect users and platform health, addressing abuse, spam, fraud, and other risks across TikTok products and services.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in Linux, Hadoop ecosystem, data mining, and machine learning, with 3–5 years in a large-scale internet environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics or related majors.
• Solid engineering skills with proficiency in Linux and big data frameworks (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Storm).
• Familiarity with data mining, data science or machine learning.
• 3–5 years of relevant work experience in a large-scale internet business.

Responsibilities

• Build rules, algorithms, and ML models to respond to and mitigate business risks across TikTok products and platforms.
• Establish reliable, modular risk defense solutions to reduce manual workload and accelerate new risk areas.
• Advance risk defense excellence in privacy, compliance, ML risk perception and analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure platform health and community experience.

Skills

Linux

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

Storm

Data mining

Machine learning

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor or higher in CS/Computer Engineering/Statistics

Tools

Python

Job description

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles New York London Paris Berlin Dubai Singapore Jakarta Seoul and Tokyo

Why Join Us

At TikTok our people are humble intelligent compassionate and creative We create to inspire - for you for us and for more than 1 billion users on our platform We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes Here the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) Team

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 minimise the damage of inauthentic behaviours on TikTok covering multiple classical 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 youll 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 -- Youll be part of a team thats 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

• Build rules algorithms and machine learning models to respond to and mitigate business risks in ByteDance productsplatforms Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts fake engagements spammy redirection scraping fraud etc
• Establish reliable efficient and modularized risk defense solutions reduce manual workload on ramping up risk controls onagainst new business risk area or abusive means
• Uplevel risk defence excellence on privacycompliance machine learning risk perception and analysis achieve in-depth defence portfolio
• Bachelor or degrees above in computer science computer engineering electrical engineering statistics or other relevant majors eg finance if applying for applying for financial fraud roles
• Solid engineering skills Proficiency in at least two of Linux Hadoop Hive Spark Storm
• Familiarity with data mining data science or machine learning Bonus given to proficiency in modern machine learning theories and applications such as deep neural nets transfermulti-task learning reinforcement learning time series or graph unsupervised learning
• Ability to think critically objectively rationally Reason and communicate in result-oriented data-driven manner High autonomy
• Minimum 3 - 5 years relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business

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