Senior Backend Architect, Global E‑commerce Governance

TikTok

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 260,000 - 350,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Paid parental leave

Disability & life insurance

Paid holidays & time off

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a senior backend architect to own design of product governance and IP services, including listing risk screening, product quality enforcement, and policy‑driven review pipelines, and to write high‑quality code for critical paths.

You will lead IP protection systems end‑to‑end, drive design reviews, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product, policy, operations, legal, and algorithm engineers to translate governance policies into scalable technical

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or a related technical field.
5+ years building scalable backend services and distributed systems.
Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience.
Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Own design and architecture for product governance and IPR services; implement critical paths.
Design IP protection systems end-to-end: rights-holder reporting, brand-protection, notice-and-takedown with SLAs.
Provide technical leadership: drive design reviews, set standards, mentor engineers.
Shape the technical roadmap with a focus on scalability, reliability, and governance outcomes.
Partner with product, policy/operations/legal, and algorithm engineers to translate policies into solutions.
Drive adoption of LLM and agent-based workflows to improve accuracy and efficiency.