TikTok

Senior Software Engineer, Recommendation Engine System

TikTok • $218K — $387K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with experience in scalable system development.
  • Expertise in C++ for large-scale system projects.
  • Solid understanding of concurrent programming and multi-threaded systems.
  • Experience with high-performance computing and data processing frameworks.
  • Familiar with system architecture and performance optimization strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable recommendation engine systems for content discovery.
  • Maintain high-performance and low-latency infrastructure using C++.
  • Implement multi-threaded and concurrent computing for real-time recommendations.
  • Develop distributed systems for large-scale data processing and model inference.
  • Continuously improve system performance through profiling and optimization.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits available.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days each year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About The Team TikTok's recommendation system is at the core of our user experience, delivering personalized content to millions of users in real time. 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. What you will be doing: - Design, develop, and optimize large-scale recommendation engine systems to enhance content discovery. - Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency, and scalable infrastructure using C++ and modern system development frameworks. - Implement multi-threaded and concurrent computing techniques to support real-time recommendations. - Develop and optimize distributed systems for large-scale data processing and model inference. - Continuously improve performance and efficiency through profiling, benchmarking, and optimization.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with experience building scalable system. - Experiences with C++ in large-scale system development. - Strong understanding of concurrent programming, multi-threading, and distributed systems. - Experience with high-performance computing and large-scale data processing frameworks. - Familiarity with system architecture, caching strategies, and performance optimization. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in recommendation systems, search ranking, or personalization engines. - Proficiency in big data processing frameworks (e.g., Flink, Spark, Hadoop) and real-time data pipelines. - Experience with high-throughput, low-latency system design. - Knowledge of GPU acceleration for ML inference is a plus.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 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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Size
1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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