Senior AI Backend Engineer: Scalable AI Systems & Agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Senior AI Backend Software Engineer for Asset Services in San Jose to design and scale backend systems for a large consumer platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams, build end-to-end solutions, and advance an AI-native service ecosystem and agent-based creation.

This role offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to impact hundreds of millions of users.

Qualifications

• Backend experience with large-scale consumer apps.
• Strong knowledge of architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate in teams.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• AI application experience and AI coding paradigms knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design and frontend to deliver strong UX.
• Build end-to-end products balancing usability, performance and maintainability.
• Scale the creation experience for 100M+ UGC users and 10M designers.
• Develop an AI-native service ecosystem and development workflow.
• Build an Agent system for intelligent creation.

Skills

Backend development

CS fundamentals

Team communication

Distributed systems

AI applications

AI Agents experience

Education

B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or related field

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Senior AI Backend Software Engineer for Asset Services in San Jose to design and scale backend systems for a large consumer platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams, build end-to-end solutions, and advance an AI-native service ecosystem and agent-based creation.

This role offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to impact hundreds of millions of users.