Data Protection Platform Engineer

TikTok Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to build the data protection platform, focusing on backend services, data pipelines, and workflow automation across enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with security, IT, Insider Security, and data platform teams to make data protection capabilities scalable, reliable, and measurable, turning protection requirements into production software that connects systems and automates workflows.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Backend Engineering: 2+ years building production-grade backend services and APIs using Go, Java, or C++ (Go preferred).
• Distributed Systems: Knowledge of asynchronous processing, service-to-service communication, and failure modes with retries and idempotency.
• Big Data & Infrastructure: Experience with high-volume data ecosystems or cloud-native infra (Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes).
• Database Engineering: Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, indexing, partitioning, transactions, and data retention.
• Software Delivery: Experience with automated testing, version control, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting.
• Collaboration: Able to translate requirements into practical designs and communicate with engineers, security, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for data protection capabilities (discovery, classification, policy lifecycle).
• Develop integrations with enterprise DLP platforms, data infrastructure, identity services, and case-management systems.
• Build reusable platform capabilities for configuration management, auditable workflows, and deployment changes.
• Design data models and storage for protection metadata, security events, and audit records.

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Backend services

Distributed systems

Big data如

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Hive

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Kubernetes

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to build the data protection platform, focusing on backend services, data pipelines, and workflow automation across enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with security, IT, Insider Security, and data platform teams to make data protection capabilities scalable, reliable, and measurable, turning protection requirements into production software that connects systems and automates workflows.