Software Engineer - TikTok Search Business - San Jose

Responsibilities

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 platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, 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 communities we serve.
Join us.

We are looking for motivated individuals interested in complex engineering challenges around one of the most important aspects of TikTok. You will have the opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of Mobile Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists in a high-impact and fast-paced environment.

Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time. We also build a search inspiration recommendation system for creators, providing them with insights based on real users' search queries. This key capability enriches both the quality and quantity of TikTok's search content ecology and enhances users' search experiences. We promote a culture of self-driven innovation, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.

Responsibilities:
- Support business development of TikTok Search, provide the best search experience for TikTok users and further enable content growth.
- Performance & Stability: Build a fast and robust product by optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
- Search Engineering Infrastructure: Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine, Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
- Search Inspiration Recommendation System: Based on the understanding of users' queries in TikTok, build a fast and valuable recommendation system. Keep optimizing engineering performance and recommendation quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a similar field.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Golang, Python and Java.

Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years of industry experience in building and leading backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
- Experience in building search and recommendation services, machine learning engineering, and data processing.
- Experience in developing machine learning recommendation/search algorithms and applying to real business products.
- Enthusiastic about building a product from scratch and willing to dive into hands-on work.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2.

Job Information

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The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 annually.​

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