Data Engineer-Privacy and Data Protection Office, San Jose

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the team
PDPO(Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry leading way. This team is the expert in the landscape of privacy risks and passionate about consulting across the company on implementing the proper safeguards and technical mitigations to ensure that our users' privacy is honored across the TikTok's products and platforms.

About the role
We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join the Risk and Governance organization within PDPO to utilize big data techniques in building solutions to help envision TikTok's privacy evolution. You will be expected to conduct rigorous data investigations, develop scalable data solutions and build deep domain knowledge in privacy and data protection from your day by day work.
- Work as Centralized Data Experts (CDE) to conduct impact sizing analysis during critical privacy incident investigation and response to data requests from media or regulators.
- Design and build systematic data solutions and standardized data runbooks to improve efficiency and ensure accuracy for incident and inquiry response.
- Sort out data inventories across the whole company in different formats and platforms to develop scalable monitoring systems that detect Privacy Risks and establish automated alerts.
- Develop data pipelines to automate metrics reporting, drive metrics to improve Operational Excellence.
- Conduct data investigation, data mining to find root causes, patterns and trends for privacy risks, and develop improvement or remediation plans for data protection.
- Establish solid design and best engineering practice for data access controls and management
- Collaborate with various XFN teams within the PDPO department and across organizations (e.g. legal, security, engineering and product) to drive various projects on privacy and data protection.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, mathematics or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on experience and deep understanding of various Big Data technologies (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.)
- Proficient in SQL, Python, Schema design, ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading)
- Experience with data visualization tools or platforms (e.g. Dashboards, Tableau, etc.)
- Strong communication and project management skills. Be comfortable working with a large number of XFNs to lead and drive projects at different stages.

Preferred Qualification
- Experience and knowledge on data privacy & data security is a plus
- Passionate and self-motivated about big data and data privacy.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2