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Senior Software Engineer, TikTok LIVE - Foundation - Governance

TikTok
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jul 2025

About the role

The TikTok LIVE - Foundation - Governance Engineering team is a global team responsible for ensuring the quality of live streaming content. It takes on the responsibility of building the backend system, collaborating with data scientists, ecosystem governance managers, the operations team, and the Trust & Safety Algorithm team. Together, we develop human-based and machine-based moderation, the penalty center, and permission governance tools to ensure our content is high quality and enjoyable to our users worldwide.



Responsibilities

- Work closely with product manager, data scientist, UI designer, and other engineers to iterate on data driven product ideas.

- Improve system design and architecture to ensure service reliability, performance, and extensibility.

- Learn and understand how TikTok products work and help build end-to-end solutions.

- Learn and grow from working with great colleagues and taking on challenges.

- Help our team grow from your expertise, experience, and perspectives.

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