Tech Lead - E-commerce Recommendation Infrastructure - San Jose

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose seeks an experienced software engineer to join the E-commerce Recommendation Infra team, building robust, scalable infrastructure for recommendation systems and data pipelines across TikTok Shop.

You will collaborate with ML engineers to support innovative algorithms and high-traffic systems, delivering reliable performance and end-to-end infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in CS or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Strong software development with C++, Java or other language.
• Good teamwork and communication, ownership.

Responsibilities

• 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 to support growing user traffic and data.
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions.

Skills

C++/Java

Education

Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields

Job description

Responsibilities

Our Team

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.

Responsibilities

Our Team

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
• At least 5+ 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 $218400 - $480000 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.