Graduate Software Engineer — Search Data Infra

TikTok; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring a Software Engineer Graduate for the TikTok Search Data Infra team in San Jose, with a 2027 start. You will help build and own query pipelines, data ingestion, and training data pipelines at massive scale.

Candidates pursuing a Bachelor's in CS or related field, with Java/C++/Python and experience in Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg, are invited to apply. Onboarding by year-end is expected; applicants may apply to up to two roles.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C++, or Python.
• Production experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals, and the ability to debug and optimize complex systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and own query/video pipelines — ingestion, enrichment, and streaming/batch index construction at billion-doc scale with near-real-time freshness.
• Develop the feature engineering platform: computation, backfill, storage, and serving, with strong online/offline consistency guarantees.
• Build streaming and batch sample pipelines that turn user actions and features into high-quality training data.
• Improve data quality, observability, and cost efficiency across PB-scale storage and compute.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

distributed systems

strong CS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Spark

Flink

Hive/Iceberg

Job description

TikTok is hiring a Software Engineer Graduate for the TikTok Search Data Infra team in San Jose, with a 2027 start. You will help build and own query pipelines, data ingestion, and training data pipelines at massive scale.

Candidates pursuing a Bachelor's in CS or related field, with Java/C++/Python and experience in Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg, are invited to apply. Onboarding by year-end is expected; applicants may apply to up to two roles.