AI Backend Tech Lead for Global Asset Platform

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build and scale our asset platforms and AI-native services for massive consumer use. You will work across product, design, and frontend teams to deliver robust, performant backend solutions that power TikTok's creative tools.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, AI integration, and scalable architectures, with opportunities to shape the end-to-end creator experience and impact global users.

Qualifications

• Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Understand modern distributed system architecture.
• In-depth AI application experience and understanding of AI Coding paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cross functional teams like product managers, designers, and Frontend engineers to deliver state of the art user experience in the above products mentioned;
• Build world-class products end-to-end, which combine usability, accessibility, elegance, performance, and maintainability;
• Guarantee the creation experience of 100 million-level UGC users and 10 million-level designers;
• Construct an AI Native service ecosystem and development workflow;
• Build an Agent system serving intelligent creation.

Skills

Backend systems

Algorithms & data structures

Team collaboration

Distributed systems

AI applications

Education

B.S. in CS or related

Job description

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build and scale our asset platforms and AI-native services for massive consumer use. You will work across product, design, and frontend teams to deliver robust, performant backend solutions that power TikTok's creative tools.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, AI integration, and scalable architectures, with opportunities to shape the end-to-end creator experience and impact global users.