Software Engineer - Data Architecture, TikTok US

Software Engineer - Data Architecture, TikTok US at TikTok in San Jose, CA.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Experience in open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
• Experience in Java, C ++ and other programming languages
• Solid coding and troubleshooting ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies
• Experience of Peta Byte level data processing

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

About the Company

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do

• Design and implement a reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems
• Design and implement flexible, scalable, stable and high-performance storage and computing systems
• Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system
• Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems
• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software
• Apply data mining, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyse information from large structured and unstructured datasets
• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well

Additional Information

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.