Big Data Engineer Graduate (TikTok Recommendation Architecture) - 2027 Start

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) match

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a highly capable candidate to join the Recommendation Architecture Team. You will help design offline data architecture and scalable storage for a massive recommender system, while ensuring stability and high availability of distributed data pipelines.

The role emphasizes implementing high-performance storage and compute systems, applying ML and data analytics to derive actionable insights, and building end-to-end solutions for large-scale data processing within a fast-growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field is required.
• Familiar with open-source big data frameworks listed above.
• Proficient in Java and C++, with strong debugging skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Willing to tackle difficult, open-ended questions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement offline data architecture for large-scale recommender systems.
• Design scalable, high-performance storage and computing systems.
• Troubleshoot production systems and ensure operational stability.
• Build distributed storage/computing infrastructure for massive data.
• Develop analytics applications to transform raw data into insights.
• Apply data mining, NLP, and ML to extract information from large datasets.
• Visualize and report data findings; may create dynamic data reports.

Skills

Java

C++

Big data frameworks

Troubleshooting

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Flink

FlinkSQL

Spark

Kafka

HBase

Redis

RocksDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

Responsibilities

About The Team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

The team is responsible for system stability and high availability, online services and offline data flow performance optimization, solving system bottlenecks, reducing cost overhead, building data and service mid-platform, realizing flexible and scalable high-performance storage and computing systems.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems
• Design and implement flexible, scalable, stable and high-performance storage and computing systems
• Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system
• Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems
• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software
• Apply data mining, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyse information from large structured and unstructured datasets
• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s)

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Familiar with many open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
• Familiar with Java, C ++ and other programming languages
• Strong coding and trouble shooting ability
• Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of Peta Byte level data processing is a plus

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $316800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others.

Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request