Software Engineer - Data Architecture, TikTok US

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a data architecture expert to design and optimize the offline data architecture for our recommendation system, ensuring a stable, high-performance environment for millions of users.

You will build scalable storage and computing systems, troubleshoot production issues, and advance data mining, NLP and machine learning to transform raw data into meaningful insights and actionable reports for the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with open source big data frameworks (Hadoop, Hive, Flink, Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch).
• Proficiency in Java, C++ and other programming languages; solid coding and troubleshooting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems.
• Design scalable, stable, high-performance storage and computing systems.
• Troubleshoot production system issues and build tools to ensure overall system stability.
• Develop distributed storage and compute infrastructure for massive data and large-scale applications.
• Apply data mining, data modelling, NLP, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large datasets.
• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings; create dynamic data reports as needed.

Skills

Java

C++

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Flink

FlinkSQL

Spark

Kafka

HBase

Redis

RocksDB

ElasticSearch

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

• Design and implement a reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems
• Design and implement flexible, scalable, stable and high-performance storage and computing systems
• Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system
• Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems
• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software
• Apply data mining, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyse information from large structured and unstructured datasets
• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Experience in open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
• Experience in Java, C ++ and other programming languages
• Solid coding and troubleshooting ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies
• Experience of Peta Byte level data processing

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $316800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.