TikTok

Lead Backend Engineer, TikTok-BRIC-ML Foundation

TikTok$244K — $450K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with programming languages such as Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.
  • Experience in machine learning infrastructure for large-scale traffic handling.
  • Strong critical thinking skills for problem-solving.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional work.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (preferred).
  • Experience in risk or anti-abuse systems or large distributed systems (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical direction of ML Foundation with a focus on innovation.
  • Build and maintain infrastructures for modeling and LLM applications to mitigate business risks.
  • Enhance risk machine learning excellence in areas such as privacy and compliance.
  • Develop tools and automated processes for risk analytics and enforcement.
  • Advance the capabilities of risk prevention and perception across TikTok businesses.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and short-term/long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits.
  • 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Job Description The TikTok-BRIC-ML Foundation team builds scalable ML and AI platforms that form the backbone of TikTok's risk control intelligence. It powers everything from model training and deployment to A/B testing and real-time inference. Our scope extends to cutting-edge AI infrastructure and LLM applications -- including AI agents, LLM inference services, and monitoring systems-that enable safer, smarter, and more trustworthy user experiences across the platform. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives. You'll be part of a team that's developing novel solutions to first-seen challenges of a non-stop evolution of a phenomenal product eco-system: - Work on infrastructure and tools to enable construction, deployment, and serving of risk defence algorithms and machine learning models at scale. Improve capacities of risk prevention, perception and remediation across various TikTok businesses. - Build tools and automated procedures to support risk analytics and defence enforcement. - Keep risk control solutions state-of-art in front of data security, modularisation, privacy and compliance. Help improve end-to-end risk service/platform/tooling SLA. - Lead technical direction for cross-team initiatives and mentor engineers in best practices for risk infrastructure and tooling. Responsibilities - Lead and be responsible for the technical direction of ML Foundation and continue to innovate. - Build and maintain modeling infrastructures, LLM applications & platform to mitigate business risks in TikTok products/platforms, reduce modeling, operational, and system load on risk adversaries and new product/risk ramping-ups. - Uplevel risk machine learning excellence in privacy/compliance, interpretability, risk perception and analysis.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Go, C/C++, Java, Python - Experience in machine learning infrastructure that handles large traffic - Ability to think critically and formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way - Solid communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant majors. - Experience in Risk related system (or known as Anti-abuse system, or Trust related domain), or large distributed system

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $244800 - $450000 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 TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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