Software Engineer, AI-Native Ad Data Platform

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

Job summary

TikTok Pte. Ltd. in Singapore seeks an exceptional engineer to help build an AI-native data platform powering global advertising.

You will own architecture and deliver end-to-end solutions for high-throughput services handling hundreds of millions of users’ activity. The role emphasizes design of agent-facing data services, semantic modeling, and data quality governance, with strong CS fundamentals and experience in distributed systems and big data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Strong command of at least one programming language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, or Go).
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, OS, databases and networks.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to decompose complex logic.
• Comfortable using AI coding agents as part of building, testing, and reviewing code.
• Excellent communication to collaborate across engineering, product, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core of an AI-native data platform: own architecture and hands-on development of high-throughput services serving hundreds of millions of users’ advertising activity, delivering end-to-end solutions.
• Design agent-facing data services and tool interfaces: build APIs and tool surfaces for agents to discover and use data with scoped permissions and full audit trails.
• Contribute to the semantic layer: define metrics, dimensions, lineage, and data contracts to ensure stable, reliable data work.
• Make correctness measurable: contribute to testing standards, golden query suites, and data quality monitoring to catch semantic drift.
• Conquer technical challenges: high concurrency, multi-tenant isolation, governance at query generation, and cost/performance at scale.

Skills

Programming languages: Java, C, C++,  

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Big data

LLM apps

Data warehousing

Open-source / projects

Advertising tech

Job description

TikTok Pte. Ltd. in Singapore seeks an exceptional engineer to help build an AI-native data platform powering global advertising.

You will own architecture and deliver end-to-end solutions for high-throughput services handling hundreds of millions of users’ activity. The role emphasizes design of agent-facing data services, semantic modeling, and data quality governance, with strong CS fundamentals and experience in distributed systems and big data.