Senior Software Engineer, E-commerce Recommendation Infra

TikTok Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking an engineer for the E-commerce Recommendation Infra team to build and optimize large-scale recommender systems powering TikTok Shop.

You will design scalable online services and data pipelines that support live-streaming, short videos, and product recommendations. You will collaborate with applied ML engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver end-to-end infra solutions, improve performance under rising traffic, and ensure a stable, high-quality experience for users

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
• 3+ years building scalable systems
• Experience with distributed storage or big data frameworks

Responsibilities

• Build a large-scale globalized recommendation system
• Design high-performance online systems and reliable data pipelines
• Optimize and evolve systems to handle rising traffic and data volume
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end infra solutions

Skills

Team collaboration

Communication

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

C++

Java

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking an engineer for the E-commerce Recommendation Infra team to build and optimize large-scale recommender systems powering TikTok Shop.

You will design scalable online services and data pipelines that support live-streaming, short videos, and product recommendations. You will collaborate with applied ML engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver end-to-end infra solutions, improve performance under rising traffic, and ensure a stable, high-quality experience for users