Graduate Solutions Engineer — Build Ad Tech Solutions

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Solutions Engineer Graduate for the Advertisement Team in San Jose, with a 2027 start date. As a graduate, you will tackle technical challenges, architect solutions, and collaborate across teams to drive advertiser success.

You will pair with sales and product groups to convert business goals into scalable technical designs while contributing production-ready code in a fast-moving, global TikTok engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Candidates completing or recently completing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Experience shipping production quality code.
• Familiar with languages such as Python, Go, Java, C/C++.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with various sized stakeholder groups internally and externally.
• Knowledge of API and backend systems design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with customers' and partners' technical teams and support joint engineering roadmaps.
• Partner with sales teams to identify technical solutions that address advertisers' business goals.
• Build and deliver products and end-to-end customized solutions with Ads product and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical insights and influence product development roadmaps to address customer and business needs.

Skills

Production code

Programming languages

Technical communication

Stakeholder collaboration

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Solutions Engineer Graduate for the Advertisement Team in San Jose, with a 2027 start date. As a graduate, you will tackle technical challenges, architect solutions, and collaborate across teams to drive advertiser success.

You will pair with sales and product groups to convert business goals into scalable technical designs while contributing production-ready code in a fast-moving, global TikTok engineering culture.