Tech Lead, Global Governance & IP Systems

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale product governance and IP protection services within Global E-commerce Governance. You will lead end-to-end architecture, build rights-holder tooling, and collaborate with product, policy, and legal teams.

Strong emphasis on LLM-based review workflows and cross-timezone collaboration. Join a fast-growing team focused on reliability, scalability, and measurable governance outcomes, delivering safe and trusted marketplace experiences

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in E-commerce or marketplace platforms, especially listing/catalog systems.

Responsibilities

• Own solution design and system architecture for product governance and IPR services — listing risk screening, product quality enforcement, policy-driven review pipelines — and write high-quality code for critical paths.
• Design and evolve IP protection systems end-to-end: rights-holder reporting and brand-protection platforms, notice-and-takedown workflows with SLA guarantees, and proactive infringement detection, in close partnership with legal and policy teams.
• Provide technical leadership across the team: drive design reviews, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.
• Shape the team's technical roadmap with a focus on scalability, reliability, and measurable governance outcomes (e.g., violation catch rate, takedown SLA, review efficiency, seller and rights-holder experience).
• Partner closely with product managers, policy/operations/legal teams, and algorithm engineers to turn governance and IP policies into effective, low-friction technical solutions.
• Drive pragmatic adoption of LLM and agent-based capabilities in review and takedown workflows where they measurably improve accuracy, coverage, or efficiency.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

TikTok is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale product governance and IP protection services within Global E-commerce Governance. You will lead end-to-end architecture, build rights-holder tooling, and collaborate with product, policy, and legal teams.

Strong emphasis on LLM-based review workflows and cross-timezone collaboration. Join a fast-growing team focused on reliability, scalability, and measurable governance outcomes, delivering safe and trusted marketplace experiences