Solutions Engineer, Ads

$136,800 - $205,000/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 company has a global presence with offices in major cities around the world. At TikTok, the culture is built on humility, intelligence, compassion, and creativity, fostering an environment where employees are encouraged to pursue bold ideas and take calculated risks. The Solutions Engineering team plays a crucial role in supporting external clients and partners, helping them navigate the challenges of the advertising landscape and achieve their business objectives. As a Solutions Engineer, you will be part of the ads data platform team, collaborating closely with product managers and data analysts to build a comprehensive data architecture that includes both streaming and batch data processing, distributed data services, and artificial intelligence solutions. This architecture supports both the TikTok ads platform and the internal business intelligence platform, allowing you to work with Petabyte-level monetization data. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the company's business success, as you tackle some of the most challenging technical and business problems in the industry. In this role, you will develop and manage relationships with customers' and partners' technical staff, driving joint engineering roadmaps and identifying business opportunities that align with advertisers' goals. You will also be responsible for building and shipping new products and customized solutions in collaboration with the Ads product engineering teams, influencing the product development roadmap to address business challenges effectively.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with customers' and partners' technical staff, and manage and drive joint engineering roadmaps.
• Work with sales partners to identify business opportunities for advertisers' business goals.
• Build and ship new products as well as end-to-end customized solutions in collaboration with the Ads product engineering teams.
• Influence the roadmap of product development to solve business challenges.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience shipping production quality code.
• Familiar with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Go, Java, C/C++.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with various sized stakeholder groups internally and externally.
• Demonstrated knowledge of API and backend systems design.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with leading engineering projects as a tech lead.
• Experience in advertising technology working with large volume data analytics.

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.