Senior Backend Software Engineer – Privacy (Multiple Positions)

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 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.



About the Team

Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!



Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across our products, platforms, or services by working closely with design, product, and other cross-functional teams in developing efficient, highly scalable, and secured services using backend service experience.

Develop backend systems, services, and/or new features for information-security, compliance, anti-fraud, business governance, and customer service.

Develop the real-time computing, high concurrency, and scalability engineering practices across all product engineering disciplines.

Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services.

Contribute to overall system design and code quality improvement.

Improve the product quality through bug fixes, performance analysis, and tuning.

Grow the team by mentoring interns and junior-level Software Engineers.