Senior Data Subject Rights Backend Engineer

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build privacy-focused data systems at scale from San Jose, CA.

You will own end-to-end privacy controls across data lifecycle, consent, and DSR workflows, partnering with product, legal, and engineering teams. You will work on complex data systems, implement privacy protections, and contribute to AI governance and privacy-preserving technologies across global products.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing products.
• Proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and backend system design.
• Ability to make sound judgments on business and compliance tradeoffs, and to plan and deliver work end to end.
• Experience working with partner teams across organizations, and communicating clearly to land a shared technical decision.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend systems that improve privacy across TikTok, turning requirements into platform capabilities.
• Carry work end to end: problem framing, technical design, delivery, launch, adoption.
• Partner across product, legal, policy, data, and engineering teams to land privacy capabilities in products and data systems.
• Work with data lifecycle: collection, storage, use, sharing, retention, and deletion, linking controls to product operation.
• Use data analysis to measure privacy coverage, risk, and business impact; extend capabilities to new scenarios.
• Build and operate high-scale backend services and participate in privacy incident response.

Skills

Backend systems

Data structures

Algorithms

System design

Java

Go

C++

Python

Judgment calls

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build privacy-focused data systems at scale from San Jose, CA.

You will own end-to-end privacy controls across data lifecycle, consent, and DSR workflows, partnering with product, legal, and engineering teams. You will work on complex data systems, implement privacy protections, and contribute to AI governance and privacy-preserving technologies across global products.