E-commerce Recommendation Infrastructure Engineer

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking engineers for the E-commerce Recommendation Infra team to build and optimize the infrastructure powering TikTok Shop recommendations.

The role focuses on scalable systems, online data pipelines, and collaborative problem solving with ML engineers. Responsibilities include delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions, improving recommendation performance, and handling increasing user traffic and data volumes with robust systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in CS or related fields; 3+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Strong software development experience with C++, Java or other programming language.
• Good teamwork and communication skills; positive, optimistic, strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build industry-leading globalized large-scale recommendation system.
• Design and build high performance online systems and reliable data pipelines.
• Optimize and evolve the system continuously to support the skyrocket increase in both user traffic and the data amount.
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions to address critical product challenges and improve recommendation performance.

Skills

Software development

Teamwork

Ownership

Scalable systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

C++

Java

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking engineers for the E-commerce Recommendation Infra team to build and optimize the infrastructure powering TikTok Shop recommendations.

The role focuses on scalable systems, online data pipelines, and collaborative problem solving with ML engineers. Responsibilities include delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions, improving recommendation performance, and handling increasing user traffic and data volumes with robust systems.