Software Engineer - E-commerce Recommendation Infrastructure - Seattle

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

Responsibilities

E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-commerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

• Build industry-leading globalized large-scale recommendation system;


• Design and build high performance online systems and reliable data pipelines;


• Optimize and evolve the system continuously so as to support the skyrocket increase in both user traffic as well as the data amount;


• Work with cross functional teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions to address critical product challenges and improve recommendation performance.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 3+ years of experience building scalable systems;


• Strong software development experience with C++, Java or other programming language;


• Good teamwork and communication skills, positive and optimistic, and strong sense of ownership;


• Experienced in at least one of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, advertising, machine learning infrastructure, distributed storage system, big data frameworks.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $153900 - $300960 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 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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;


• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and


• Exercising sound judgment.