Software Engineer - Data Platform & AI Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture in the United States is hiring a Software Engineer to optimize our data platforms and AI-driven features. You will work with senior engineers to improve Spark, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Doris for petabyte-scale workloads, aiming for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will contribute to automated diagnostics, monitoring, and intelligent tooling, while collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable code and documentation.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 1+ year of hands-on experience building or maintaining distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Optimize Spark performance and resource usage for large-scale data processing.
• Tune queries and optimize storage for ClickHouse and Doris OLAP systems.
• Contribute to AI/ML-driven automated diagnosis and monitoring of data pipelines.
• Collaborate with senior engineers; participate in code reviews and documentation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Programming languages

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Apache Spark

ClickHouse

Doris

Python

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture in the United States is hiring a Software Engineer to optimize our data platforms and AI-driven features. You will work with senior engineers to improve Spark, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Doris for petabyte-scale workloads, aiming for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will contribute to automated diagnostics, monitoring, and intelligent tooling, while collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable code and documentation.