Senior Backend Software Engineer - TikTok Privacy & Security, Online Infra

About TikTok

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 products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, 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 users we serve. Join us.



As a part of TikTok Privacy & Security group, the mission of the Online Infra team is to ensure responsible data practices across TikTok and meet privacy commitments made to regulators and end-users in online system. The team provides solutions for privacy management in data lifecycle, including data collection and sharing, purpose limitation, data understanding etc.



We are dealing with an ecosystem that includes tens of thousands of online services and databases in global data centers, managing billions of users' data worldwide. To meet our commitment, we are building a world-class privacy aware infrastructure that spans all data lifecycle stages across various online environments, including API gateways, micro-services, storages, and message queues. Furthermore, we are developing data understanding services to support data governance projects in an event-driven manner.



As a software engineer, you will be engaged in designing solutions for protecting TikTok user's sensitive data with cutting-edge techniques. Your primary focus will be building globalized services and platforms to ensure that user data is well protected while empowering our business.



Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build services to protect user sensitive data with privacy design by default.

• Be responsible for the system design and functionality development of the privacy engineering frameworks and platforms.

• Work on anonymization/pseudonymization/encryption technologies to preserve user privacy in data processing activities.

• Work closely with PM and cross-functional teams to address technical challenges when applying solutions throughout our product suite.