Data Platform Engineer — E‑commerce (Big Data)

TikTok; 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 coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Data Engineer for the Data Platform E-Commerce team in a high-impact role. You will design and optimize data transformations, build scalable data systems, and contribute to a platform serving hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate across teams to ensure robust data solutions and strong engineering practices.

As a graduate, you’ll have opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and grow rapidly, with onboarding commitments by year-end.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computing engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, etc.).
• Experience in data analysis, data ingestion and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data transformations for reporting, growth analysis and multi-dimensional analysis.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable big data systems supporting core products.
• Establish solid design and best engineering practices for engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Big Data technologies

Data analysis

ETL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Hadoop

MapReduce

Hive

Spark

Metastore

Presto

Flume

Kafka

ClickHouse

Flink

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Data Engineer for the Data Platform E-Commerce team in a high-impact role. You will design and optimize data transformations, build scalable data systems, and contribute to a platform serving hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate across teams to ensure robust data solutions and strong engineering practices.

As a graduate, you’ll have opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and grow rapidly, with onboarding commitments by year-end.