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Senior Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy Infrastructure

TikTok
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Jan 2026

About the role

At TikTok, we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users’ privacy choices!



As TikTok Privacy & Security team, we are committed to protecting the personal privacy and data security of billions of TikTok users. Facing challenges of the global multi-data center with thousands of microservices, multiple storage (MySQL/Redis/Kafka/Hive), tech stacks, and a large scale R&D team, we will build various frameworks, architectures, platforms, and processes on top of this, to embed security and privacy protection into all designs of products and engineering.



As a Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities are:

- Work closely with our PMs & design team to define privacy friendly SDLC & design user friendly data governance platforms.

- Design approaches & implement privacy engineering solutions for data protection, control & compliance requirements throughout our product suite.

- Deeply involved in key data governance projects, addressing architecture & integration challenges for various business scenarios. Drive progress to ensure success of the projects.

- Investigate the cutting-edge industry progress of privacy engineering, explore feasible solutions to solve pain-points & tech challenges, continue to evolve privacy infrastructure.

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