Platform Engineer, Privacy & Governance

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to build and evolve the Global Privacy Compliance Platform (GPCP) and shared services across privacy, security, and governance teams for millions of US users. You will work across frontend and backend, delivering scalable APIs, integrations, and reusable components.

You’ll own features end-to-end, apply secure SDLC practices, collaborate with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Product teams, and help modernize platform architecture for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and maintaining production applications or backend services, with proficiency in Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Solid understanding of API design, service integration, and application architecture.
• Experience with data modeling, relational or NoSQL databases, and data-access patterns.
• Experience developing reliable backend services or complex frontend applications using modern frameworks such as React, with an understanding of API integration and production performance.
• Experience delivering features end to end, including design, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into maintainable technical solutions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Build GPCP and shared services. Develop scalable full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting compliance workflows, evidence management, and cross-system operations.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities. Build shared APIs, SDKs, UI components, domain models, data contracts, and integration frameworks to accelerate application development and onboarding while leveraging existing systems of record.
• Modernize platform architecture. Simplify dependencies and improve scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability through backward-compatible migrations.
• Enable governance workflows and intelligent automation. Build workflow automation, evidence integrations, and AI-powered tools that improve operational efficiency, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Own end-to-end delivery. Translate requirements into technical designs and documentation; implement, test, deploy, monitor, and support production services.
• Champion engineering excellence and security. Apply secure SDLC, authentication and authorization, API security, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability practices.
• Collaborate across teams. Partner with Privacy, Security, Legal, Operations, Product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, extensible solutions.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

API design

Data modeling

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

React

CI/CD

Secure SDLC

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

OAuth 2.0

SSO

RBAC

Kubernetes

OCI

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to build and evolve the Global Privacy Compliance Platform (GPCP) and shared services across privacy, security, and governance teams for millions of US users. You will work across frontend and backend, delivering scalable APIs, integrations, and reusable components.

You’ll own features end-to-end, apply secure SDLC practices, collaborate with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Product teams, and help modernize platform architecture for