Engineering Manager, Data Platform & AI-Driven Ops

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 438,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks an Engineering Manager for the Data Platform team to lead data engineers and software engineers, delivering scalable data assets on time. You will drive operational excellence, own SLAs, and partner across Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering to align data delivery with business goals.

The role emphasizes automation, AI-assisted tooling, and cost optimization across on-prem and cloud data pipelines, in an on-site US data environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years building and operating enterprise-grade data platforms or large-scale distributed data systems.
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role overseeing technical teams.
• Hands-on experience operating production batch and streaming systems (Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, Druid, ClickHouse).
• Strong grasp of data architectures (data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse).
• Improving throughput, reliability, or cost efficiency via automation or architectural change.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team of data and software engineers, fostering ownership and engineering rigor.
• Own end-to-end delivery for batch and streaming pipelines, data assets, and SLAs.
• Build or adopt AI-assisted SRE tooling, self-healing pipelines, and automated governance checks.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering to translate priorities into a data delivery roadmap.
• Collaborate with Data Foundation to adopt platform capabilities and reflect business needs.
• Ensure pipelines and datasets comply with data governance, privacy, and security requirements.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Big data systems

Cloud data pipelines

Stakeholder management

SRE automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Hadoop

Druid

ClickHouse

LLM observability

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks an Engineering Manager for the Data Platform team to lead data engineers and software engineers, delivering scalable data assets on time. You will drive operational excellence, own SLAs, and partner across Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering to align data delivery with business goals.

The role emphasizes automation, AI-assisted tooling, and cost optimization across on-prem and cloud data pipelines, in an on-site US data environment.