Graduate Data Platform Engineer – Big Data

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a graduate data engineer to join the data platform team and help design, optimize, and grow one of the world’s largest data platforms. You’ll gain hands-on experience across diverse systems, directly impacting core products and hundreds of millions of users.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026; please state availability and graduation date in your resume. Online assessment may follow resume evaluation.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in Big Data technologies (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.).
• Experience with performing data analysis, data ingestion and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data transformations efficiently and reliably for different purposes (e.g. reporting, growth analysis, multi-dimensional analysis).
• Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.
• Establish solid design and best engineering practice for engineers as well as non-technical people.

Skills

Big Data

Data analysis

Data ingestion

Data integration

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

Presto

Kafka

Flink

Job description

TikTok is seeking a graduate data engineer to join the data platform team and help design, optimize, and grow one of the world’s largest data platforms. You’ll gain hands-on experience across diverse systems, directly impacting core products and hundreds of millions of users.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026; please state availability and graduation date in your resume. Online assessment may follow resume evaluation.