Backend Engineer - Vertical Recommendations Architecture

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance (short-term &

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking graduates to join the Recommendation Architecture Team in San Jose, CA, to design and optimize the recommendation system architecture for TikTok’s vertical businesses.

You will focus on stability, scalability, and performance across online services and offline data flows. The role offers growth through bold ideas and challenging projects, with opportunities to work closely with algorithm teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Strong programming skills with good code design and style; familiarity with Go, C++, Java, or Python.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, OS, networking, and distributed/scalable systems design.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design of the recommendation system to enhance development efficiency, performance, scalability, and recommendation effectiveness.
• Build and maintain high-performance, high-availability online services for the TikTok recommendation system.
• Build efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, and training-example generation.
• Pursue extreme performance optimization in storage, computing, or application layers; optimize latency, throughput, and costs at scale.
• Troubleshoot production issues and build mechanisms for operational stability, including capacity planning, disaster recovery, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize models efficiently and safely.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Operating systems

Networking

Distributed systems

Redis

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

RPC frameworks

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking graduates to join the Recommendation Architecture Team in San Jose, CA, to design and optimize the recommendation system architecture for TikTok’s vertical businesses.

You will focus on stability, scalability, and performance across online services and offline data flows. The role offers growth through bold ideas and challenging projects, with opportunities to work closely with algorithm teams.