Privacy Data Platform Engineer – Scalable Analytics

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate robust data pipelines and data warehouses at scale.

You will collaborate across privacy, security, and engineering teams to surface privacy risks while enabling high-throughput analytics. You will work at the intersection of data engineering and product impact, delivering scalable data services and monitoring capabilities that support rapid product development while maintaining strong data governance and

Qualifications

• Experience designing data warehouses to power BI analytics, reporting, and data apps.
• Proficient in building ETL workflows with Hive, Spark, Hadoop, and SQL Server to optimize performance.
• Producing code in SQL, Python, and Java for production data pipelines.
• Troubleshooting, triaging, and debugging complex distributed data infra and pipelines.
• Building scalable data services or serving layers using HBase, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or SQL Server.

Responsibilities

• Design, construct, test, and maintain robust, fault-tolerant, scalable data pipelines and data services.
• Build, optimize, and scale storage solutions and data warehouses with modern distributed databases and caching.
• Investigate and integrate emerging big data tools and open-source frameworks into production environments.
• Implement fault-tolerant mechanisms, triage issues, and monitor data infrastructure to ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and software engineers to align data platform capabilities with business goals.

Skills

Data warehouses design

ETL pipelines (Hive/Spark/Hadoop/SQL)

Production code (SQL/Python/Java)

Distributed data infra troubleshooting

Data serving layers (HBase/Elk/ClickHo

Tools

Hive

Spark

Hadoop

SQL Server

HBase

Elasticsearch

ClickHouse

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate robust data pipelines and data warehouses at scale.

You will collaborate across privacy, security, and engineering teams to surface privacy risks while enabling high-throughput analytics. You will work at the intersection of data engineering and product impact, delivering scalable data services and monitoring capabilities that support rapid product development while maintaining strong data governance and