Staff Platform Engineer, Governance & AI Enablement

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 438,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to anchor Governance Platform & Enablement. You will architect federated governance platforms, build secure data contracts, and enable scalable workflows and AI-powered systems.

You’ll stay deeply hands-on, deliver critical components, mentor engineers, and drive platform modernization across multiple teams while shaping security, reliability, and auditable operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, operating, and modernizing complex production software platforms.
• Hands-on software engineering in Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript with backend focus.
• Deep APIs, data contracts, and asynchronous workflows expertise.
• Proven cross-team architecture leadership without direct authority.
• Translate domain requirements into reusable platform services with measurable outcomes.
• Security and privacy-aware architecture with auditable cross-system integration.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical direction and governance platform roadmap across systems of record, workflow, and evidence integration.
• Lead migrations of platform and shared services with rollback plans and measure reliability and adoption.
• Write production code for core components, SDKs, and integration frameworks; troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Drive cross-team architectural decisions and align teams on scalable, maintainable design.
• Define reusable AI integration patterns and auditable automation for governance workflows and code intelligence.
• Raise engineering standards with secure SDLC, APIs, reliability, and observability practices.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow domain architecture ownership across teams.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Security & privacy

Cross-team leadership

AI/ML concepts

Tools

Kubernetes

APIs & data contracts

SDKs & integration frameworks

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to anchor Governance Platform & Enablement. You will architect federated governance platforms, build secure data contracts, and enable scalable workflows and AI-powered systems.

You’ll stay deeply hands-on, deliver critical components, mentor engineers, and drive platform modernization across multiple teams while shaping security, reliability, and auditable operations.