Tech Lead Manager, Data Platform

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for the Data Platform team to lead data and software engineers, driving on-time delivery of large-scale data assets across multiple data centers.

You will innovate with automation and AI to improve reliability, cost optimization, and governance, collaborating with Data Foundation to turn platform capabilities into measurable improvements for our business lines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: Manage, coach, and develop a team of data engineers. Foster a culture of

Job description

Responsibilities

The Data Platform team at the TikTok USDS Joint Venture operates TikTok's US data processing ecosystem: a full suite of big data services, hundreds of thousands of batch and streaming pipelines/tasks, resource optimization, compliance and guaranteed data production. We ensure pipelines produce high-quality production data reliably and on time to meet the need of all the major TikTok businesses lines - including TikTok, Live, eCommerce, while maintaining efficient resource utilization, workload isolation, and regulatory compliance.

About the Role

As a Tech Lead Manager on the Data Platform team, you will lead a team of data engineers and software engineers, create innovative solutions to scale operations, and own the reliable on-time delivery of large-scale data assets. Your team is the business's dependable delivery partner: our happy clients count on your service to produce data that are critical for business intelligence, application operations, and customer successes across multiple data centers.

You will innovate with software, automation, and AI to do more with what we have — driving self-healing pipelines, AI-assisted reliability engineering and on-call, intelligent cost and resource optimization, and automation for data development, quality checks, and governance. You will collaborate closely with the internal Data foundation team, surfacing operational needs, co-defining roadmaps, and jointly turning platform capabilities into measurable reliability, efficiency, and productivity gains for your business line.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: Manage, coach, and develop a team of data engineers. Foster a culture of