Software Engineer, Privacy & Security

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

The TikTok Privacy team focuses on delivering testing framework, testing and debug tools, privacy governance platform, to ensure high quality and stability of privacy projects and privacy product. We look forward to your joining.



Our mission is to protect personal data and privacy for billions of users on TikTok platform, let users explore, create and connect with each other with trust. On the path of constructing and consolidating a reliable and resilient tool, framework, architecture and relative workflow, you will face challenges of ensuring high quality and stability with global multi-datacenter deployment, high-concurrency micro service, and you will face global cooperation.



As a software engineer, you will work on a specific privacy project critical to TikTok's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.



With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate or manage an offshore team.



1. To take charge of privacy protection and data security platform development, and deeply take part in privacy platform infrastructure optimization.

2. To take charge of providing a productized solution, with multiple tools and components such as privacy algorithm , design, security toolkit, and workflow, mitigating security risk.

3. To investigate cutting-edge research results, explore available new solutions to eradicate existing privacy pain points.

4. To drive the evolution of architecture continuously.