Graduate Software Engineer: Ads Delivery & Growth Tech

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking talented engineers to join the Brand Ads Team, which owns the delivery stack for reservation, auction, and content ads.

You will help turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies, own design and implementation, and use data and experiments to drive fast iteration. Successful candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in CS, strong coding and system design fundamentals, and proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
• Comfort with ambiguity and engineering trade-offs.
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration.
• Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
• Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
• Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
• Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
• Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.
• Explore and productionize LLM/foundation-model applications in delivery.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Java

Python

Strong coding

System design

Large-scale backend

Advertising systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking talented engineers to join the Brand Ads Team, which owns the delivery stack for reservation, auction, and content ads.

You will help turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies, own design and implementation, and use data and experiments to drive fast iteration. Successful candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in CS, strong coding and system design fundamentals, and proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.