Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy Infrastructure

$145,000 - $250,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. The Privacy & Security team at TikTok is dedicated to protecting the personal privacy and data security of billions of users. This role as a Backend Software Engineer in the Privacy Infrastructure team involves working closely with product managers and design teams to define a privacy-friendly Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and to design user-friendly data governance platforms. The engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing privacy engineering solutions that address data protection, control, and compliance requirements across TikTok's product suite. The position requires deep involvement in key data governance projects, addressing architecture and integration challenges for various business scenarios. The engineer will drive progress to ensure the success of these projects while investigating cutting-edge industry advancements in privacy engineering. This includes exploring feasible solutions to solve pain points and technical challenges, and continuing to evolve the privacy infrastructure to meet the needs of a global multi-data center environment with thousands of microservices and various storage technologies such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Hive. At TikTok, the culture emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to privacy as a core value in product design and implementation. The company believes that privacy is not just about compliance but also about fostering trust and enabling technological innovation by respecting users' privacy choices. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software engineering principles, excellent communication skills, and a passion for creating secure and user-friendly technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above, 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• In-depth understanding of computer principles, familiar with general server architecture, skilled use of various data structures and algorithms, proficient in a programming language.
• Good business scenarios & requirements understanding, able to design reasonable technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork spirit.
• With rigorous logical thinking.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience of privacy awareness process design for SDLC, AI model training.
• Experience of data processing control solutions like purpose limitation, access control etc.
• Experience of data protection solutions like data classification, data de-identification etc.
• Rich experience in Internet product architecture design.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.