Software Engineer, TikTok Brand Ads

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short- and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking experienced engineers to join the Brand Ads Team in San Jose, CA. You will help build end-to-end ads delivery tech, including bidding, ranking, and forecasting, and work with global teams to deliver high-performance systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of experience, strong programming skills in Go, C/C++, and Python, and a solid understanding of ad delivery systems and ML. Join us to drive impactful monetization innovations at scale.

Qualifications

• BS degree in CS/CE or related majors.
• Strong programming, debugging and optimization in Go, C/C++, Python.
• Understanding of computational advertising and ad delivery systems.
• Ability to think critically and formulate concise solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create innovative monetization products that drive engagement and business outcomes.
• Develop highly scalable services powering new ad products for billions of requests; design systems to optimize monetization with ML.
• Implement new ad solutions to protect user experiences on TikTok.
• Collaborate with strategy, product managers, and stakeholders to define products from an engineering perspective.
• Contribute to a fast-growing organization with speed and quality.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Python

Education

BS degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related

Job description

Responsibilities

The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products: reservation ads, auction ads, and innovative content ads that enables advertisers and users to foster more awareness of their brand to attain their business goals. We work on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack, including ads bidding, ranking, and forecasting.

We are looking for experienced engineers that have strong problem solving skills and algorithm understanding to build and manage systems with high performance, scalability, and availability. You will have the opportunity to partner closely with a globalized engineering and product teams in a high-impact and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Create innovative monetization products that drive engagement and business outcomes.
• Develop highly scalable services that powers new ad products for billions of requests. Design systems that will optimize monetization efficiency with product engineering and state-of-the-art machine learning technologies.
• Implement new ad solutions that will continuously protect the user experiences on TikTok.
• Collaborate with strategy team, product managers, and other key stakeholders to define products and drive initiatives from engineering perspective.
• Contribute to the success of a rapidly growing and evolving organization with speediness and quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors with 3+ year of work experience.
• Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Go, C/C++, Python.
• Proficient in the mechanics of computational advertising, with a strong understanding of ad delivery systems.
• Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding in one of the following domains: brand ads, content ads, auction, bidding, ranking, and ads forecasting.
• Good knowledge in one of the following areas: machine learning, deep learning, backend, large-scale systems, data pipeline.
• Good product sense and experience designing and implementing product features.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $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 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:

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.