Senior Data Platform & Engineering Lead

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 438,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a Tech Lead Manager for the Data BP team to lead data engineers in maintaining and scaling TikTok's US data platform. You will drive architecture standards, partner with product, analytics and engineering teams, and own end-to-end delivery of data solutions.

You will shape data governance, performance, and cost efficiency while communicating effectively with technical and executive stakeholders in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 5+ years building and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms.
• 3+ years in engineering leadership or management.
• Hands-on with big data processing and distributed storage.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a data engineering team focused on excellence and ownership.
• Oversee cross-functional delivery across project lifecycles.
• Design scalable data platforms and pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
• Define architecture standards for data modeling and quality.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Eng teams.
• Define metrics to measure performance and guide priorities.
• Optimize data processing for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Establish governance, planning and delivery controls.
• Ensure data governance, privacy and security compliance.
• Communicate complex concepts to technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Big data processing

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL

Python

Education

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

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Druid

ClickHouse

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a Tech Lead Manager for the Data BP team to lead data engineers in maintaining and scaling TikTok's US data platform. You will drive architecture standards, partner with product, analytics and engineering teams, and own end-to-end delivery of data solutions.

You will shape data governance, performance, and cost efficiency while communicating effectively with technical and executive stakeholders in a fast-paced, in-person environment.