Senior Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy Infrastructure

$194,000 - $355,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Senior

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, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer in the Privacy Infrastructure team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that privacy is prioritized in our product design and implementation. This position 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. You will be responsible for designing and implementing privacy engineering solutions that address data protection, control, and compliance requirements across our product suite. In this role, you will be deeply involved in key data governance projects, tackling architecture and integration challenges for various business scenarios. You will drive progress to ensure the success of these projects while investigating cutting-edge industry advancements in privacy engineering. Your goal will be to explore feasible solutions to address pain points and technical challenges, continuously evolving our privacy infrastructure to meet the needs of billions of TikTok users. At TikTok, we believe that every challenge is an opportunity to learn, innovate, and grow as a team. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where employees are valued for their skills and unique perspectives. Join us in our mission to inspire creativity and bring joy to our global community.

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, 5+ 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) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure).
• 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.