Tech Lead, Recommendation Infrastructure

$224,000 - $410,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Jose, CA

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About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. The Recommendation Infrastructure Team plays a crucial role in building and optimizing the infrastructure for TikTok's recommendation system, ensuring a stable and high-quality experience for users. This team is dedicated to creating efficient, flexible, and general-purpose recommendation systems, platforms, and data applications that support the rapid growth and iteration of TikTok products. As a Tech Lead, you will dive deep into complex challenges within the recommendation and big data spaces, providing technical leadership for key projects. You will be responsible for building and leading the TikTok recommendation infrastructure, collaborating closely with global engineering teams in a fast-paced environment. This role offers the opportunity to grow and lead a team of engineers focused on developing innovative distributed systems that empower large-scale recommendation and machine learning systems. Your responsibilities will include building scalable and reliable online systems and data pipelines, continuously optimizing the infrastructure to handle increasing user traffic and data volume. You will work with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to define the roadmap, drive initiatives, and deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions that address critical product challenges and enhance recommendation performance. Additionally, you will support TikTok's global development and operations with a reliable and scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to creating innovative distributed systems to empower large-scale recommendation and machine learning systems.
• Build extremely efficient, scalable and reliable online systems and data pipelines, optimizing and evolving the system continuously to support the increase in user traffic and data volume.
• Work with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to define the roadmap, drive initiatives, and deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions to address critical product challenges and improve recommendation performance.
• Support TikTok recommendation global development and operation with reliable and scalable infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields.
• 5+ years of engineering experience in building large-scale distributed systems with 1+ years of engineering technical leadership experience.
• Excellent programming, troubleshooting, and optimization skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Java, Python.
• Experienced in at least one area of personalized recommendations, search engine, advertising, machine learning infrastructure, distributed storage systems, or big data frameworks.
• Ability to think critically and formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a 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 for 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) 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.