Engineering Manager, TikTok Music

$224,000 - $410,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

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About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The TikTok Music team is dedicated to building resonance and inspiring expression through music, which includes TikTok Music and SoundOn. This team aims to inspire music creation by servicing music creators throughout the lifecycle of music creation, promotion, and engagement. We are looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead the TikTok Engineering team, responsible for business and tech planning, architecture design, cross-team collaboration, and engineer management. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner closely with global engineering and product teams in a high-impact and fast-paced environment. As the Tech Lead Manager, you will build and lead the TikTok Engineering US team, setting the product vision and strategy in collaboration with product and business teams while overseeing the engineering roadmap. You will effectively scale the engineering team by attracting and mentoring extraordinary individuals at various experience levels to cultivate a high-performing and diverse team. Your responsibilities will include managing project priorities and product deliveries, driving technical initiatives from execution to delivery, and establishing a productive R&D process. You may also be hands-on in architecture design and building team engineering best practices, ensuring that the team operates efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Build and Lead the TikTok Engineering US team
• Set the product vision and strategy with product and business teams, and oversee the engineering roadmap
• Effectively scale the engineering team by attracting and mentoring extraordinary people at various experience levels to grow a high performing and diverse team
• Manage project priorities and product deliveries
• Drive technical initiatives from execution toward delivery
• Build the productive R&D process
• Could be hands-on in the architecture design and building team engineering best practices

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in a high scale distributed environment
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, including people management
• Strong engineering background on one or more large scale backend systems
• Experience of driving collaboration across cross functional teams on delivering shared goals
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Experience building DSP or music product would be a plus

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building DSP or music product would be a plus

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
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
• 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
• 401K company match
• Gym and cellphone service reimbursements