Backend Engineer, Ads Platform

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle advertising platform in the U.S. market, building large-scale systems and ML-driven optimization to maximize mobile monetization.

This role focuses on designing highly available ad-serving components and optimizing delivery strategies for maximum revenue, while collaborating across diverse teams. The team emphasizes performance, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional leadership as it scales to reach a broader developer ecosystem in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines.
• 1+ years of working experience and extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend systems, and data pipelines.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design), coding skills and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available ad-serving systems capable of handling large-scale traffic with low latency.
• Develop and optimize delivery strategies for various ad placements to maximize monetization efficiency.
• Improve core algorithms and systems across ad recall, ranking, bidding, and traffic allocation.
• Leverage large-scale advertising data to enhance user- and ad-level monitoring systems, and build analytical and optimization tools for campaign performance.
• Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts. Lead innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.

Skills

Backend systems

Data pipelines

Algorithms

Problem solving

Go/C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

C++

Go

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle advertising platform in the U.S. market, building large-scale systems and ML-driven optimization to maximize mobile monetization.

This role focuses on designing highly available ad-serving components and optimizing delivery strategies for maximum revenue, while collaborating across diverse teams. The team emphasizes performance, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional leadership as it scales to reach a broader developer ecosystem in