TikTok

Software Engineer - E-commerce Recommendation Infrastructure - Seattle

TikTok • $153K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields with 3+ years of experience in scalable systems
  • Strong software development skills in C++, Java, or similar programming languages
  • Effective teamwork and communication abilities
  • Positive attitude coupled with a strong sense of ownership
  • Experience in personalized recommendations, search engines, advertising, machine learning infrastructure, distributed storage systems, or big data frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Build a global large-scale recommendation system
  • Design and construct high-performance online systems and reliable data pipelines
  • Continuously optimize the system for increased user traffic and data volume
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide end-to-end infrastructure solutions
  • Address critical product challenges to enhance recommendation performance.

Benefits

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

E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-commerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques. Responsibilities - Build industry-leading globalized large-scale recommendation system; - Design and build high performance online systems and reliable data pipelines; - Optimize and evolve the system continuously so as to support the skyrocket increase in both user traffic as well as the data amount; - Work with cross functional teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions to address critical product challenges and improve recommendation performance.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 3+ years of experience building scalable systems; - Strong software development experience with C++, Java or other programming language; - Good teamwork and communication skills, positive and optimistic, and strong sense of ownership; - Experienced in at least one of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, advertising, machine learning infrastructure, distributed storage system, big data frameworks.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $153900 - $300960 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.

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.

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
Industry
Founded
2012

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