Senior Real-Time Recommendations Engineer

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a skilled engineer to help design and optimize the architecture for our recommendation system. This role focuses on building high‑performance services and scalable data pipelines to support real-time decision making and large-scale personalization for users.

You will contribute to globalized recommendation infrastructure and develop computing/storage frameworks, collaborating on an on-site, full‑time schedule as the team expands.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Proficient in C, C++, Java or Golang.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system.
• Build efficient data pipelines for candidate/profile generation and real-time training.
• Build globalized large-scale recommendation system.
• Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in CS or related fields

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a skilled engineer to help design and optimize the architecture for our recommendation system. This role focuses on building high‑performance services and scalable data pipelines to support real-time decision making and large-scale personalization for users.

You will contribute to globalized recommendation infrastructure and develop computing/storage frameworks, collaborating on an on-site, full‑time schedule as the team expands.