Software Engineer Graduate (Compliance Platform) - 2025 Start (BS/MS)

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.

The TikTok Privacy & Security Compliance Platform team is responsible for building easy to use and efficient tools for compliance work for our users across the company, including legal, data protection office, thousands of TikTok Engineers and TikTok leadership, etc. The team is working on TikTok's privacy protection-related projects, including Data Retention, Data Minimization, etc, and tools like DPIA, Privacy Control Framework, Risk Management for legal/PDPO team, and aims to improve the user experience and efficiency of R&D's daily compliance task.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Online Assessment
Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment in HackerRank.

Responsibilities
- Work closely with talented engineers, product managers and designers to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions to solve them.
- Quickly ramp up on the existing features and be responsible for shipping the features into production.
- Analyze and optimize software for quality, efficiency and performance.
- Expect your scope of responsibilities to grow quickly with a willingness to keep learning and growing.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience in software development in team settings.
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
- Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related fields.
- Knowledge and experience with programming languages such as Javascript, Golang, etc
- Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Knowledge and experience with at least one modern web development framework.
- Practical knowledge of algorithms, patterns, and tradeoffs of distributed systems' design.
- Interest and knowledge of privacy principles in the software industry.

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