Job title: Tech Lead/Sr Software Engineer, Search Infra – USDS
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Job description: TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok’s purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact – for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.
About USDS
At TikTok, we’re committed to a process of continuous innovation and improvement in our user experience and safety controls. We’re proud to be able to serve a global community of more than a billion people who use TikTok to creatively express themselves and be entertained, and we’re dedicated to giving them a platform that builds opportunity and fosters connection. We also take our responsibility to safeguard our community seriously, both in how we address potentially harmful content and how we protect against unauthorized access to user data.
U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a standalone entity of TikTok in the U.S. This new security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and user data in the U.S., so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.
About the Team
Our Search Team is responsible for building and owning TikTok’s search engine, which provides our users the best search experience.
On the TikTok Search Team, you’ll have the opportunity to build a full-stack search engine system and combine information retrieval technology with modern machine learning methods from related fields such as NLP, CV, and recommender system. We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Optimize the searching quality to provide TikTok’s users the best search experience
- Combine your understanding of product objectives and take full advantage of modern machine learning and information retrieval techniques to improve search quality and perception
- Build the core systems and algorithms development including query understanding, result ranking, query recommendation, system reliability, and etc.
- Provide technical leadership to drive high scalable, reliability and low latency service iteration and renovation.
- Provide guidance, regular feedback, and mentorship to team members.
In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.
Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors
- 7+ years of related industry experience
- Experience as tech lead or leading complex and large projects
- Experience in large scale distributed systems
- Proficiency in the following languages but not limited to: C/C++, Python, Java or Golang
- Effective team communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge in one of the following or similar domains: search, recommendation, ranking, ads, etc.
- Working knowledge in one of the following areas: machine learning, deep learning, backend, large-scale systems, data science, full-stack
- Experience with Big Data Frameworks, such as hadoop, spark, flink, etc.
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at usds.accommodations@tiktokusds.com
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Location: Mountain View, CA
Job date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:51:28 GMT
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