Graduate Software Engineer — Global E-commerce Search

TikTok; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring a Software Engineer Graduate for Global E-commerce Search in Seattle, with a 2027 start date. Join the Global E-Commerce Search Infrastructure team building scalable services powering TikTok Shop.

You should have a Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/CE or a related field and programming experience in C++, Go, Java, or Python, plus solid data-structures and software-engineering practices. You will design, implement, test, deploy, and operate components of large-scale search systems,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Programming experience in C++, Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or modular software design.
• Familiarity with core software-engineering practices, including testing, debugging, version control, and code review.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate well-scoped components of large-scale search and distributed systems.
• Build reliable online services and data pipelines with attention to latency, throughput, availability, freshness, cost, and maintainability.
• Contribute to retrieval, indexing, query-processing, ranking infrastructure, or AI-enabled search capabilities.
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, documentation, testing, monitoring, and incident learning.
• Use profiling, benchmarking, and production metrics to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with search, machine-learning, product, and infrastructure partners to translate requirements into practical engineering solutions.
• Learn from experienced engineers while progressively taking ownership of larger components and projects.

Skills

Programming languages

Data structures & algorithms

Software engineering practices

Problem solving

Communication

Internships/open-source

Distributed systems

Search concepts

Data-processing frameworks

AI/machine-learning infra

Performance profiling

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/CE/related

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Job description

TikTok is hiring a Software Engineer Graduate for Global E-commerce Search in Seattle, with a 2027 start date. Join the Global E-Commerce Search Infrastructure team building scalable services powering TikTok Shop.

You should have a Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/CE or a related field and programming experience in C++, Go, Java, or Python, plus solid data-structures and software-engineering practices. You will design, implement, test, deploy, and operate components of large-scale search systems,