Software Engineer Graduate (Data-E-Commerce Governance & Experience)- 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 E-Commerce Governance & Experience team's mission is:
- Ensuring a safe and trustworthy marketplace for not only our buyers, but also our sellers and creators
- Enriching, Engaging and Empowering all customers by creating an exceptional experience through high quality products, content, and service
- Building state of the art ecosystem governance, data driven experience strategies, risk control solutions, operational processes as well as collaborating with many cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Backend Software Engineer at Data E-Commerce department will build state-of-art large-scale, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems to support complex content and product moderation, risk control, Large Language Models (LLM), etc. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to fully utilize your expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design capabilities to manage complex technical challenges at scale.
We embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. We encourage close collaboration while promoting self-direction.

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.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

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

Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

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

Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services from design, development, capacity planning, and launch reviews to deployment, operation, and optimizations;
- Working closely with Algorithm engineers on bleeding edge machine learning models ranging from NLP, CV to Large Language Models (LLM);
- Design and implement state-of-art service framework that provides robust and flexible integration capabilities for machine learning models and business policies;
- Optimize system scalability, reliability, sustainability, velocity, and architecture efficiency;
- Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline;

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Linux systems, and development experience in JavaScript, Python, Go, C++, or related languages;
- Experience with e-commerce or content moderation systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and collaboration skills;
- Ability to deep dive into complex technical problems

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.