Software Engineer - Content Understanding, TikTok Feeds

Summary

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Feeds Recommendation Architecture team. The role involves designing and developing the recommendation system while optimizing system stability, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the engineering architecture requirement alignment, design, and implementation for various scenarios related to TikTok content understanding
• Contribute to improving R&D efficiency across content understanding scenarios, including but not limited to testing, deployment, monitoring, and root cause analysis
• Responsible for optimizing system stability, performance, and scalability across different scenarios

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Solid programming and algorithm foundations; proficient in Python, Go, C++, or other programming languages
• Strong backend development skills, including but not limited to storage, service orchestration, caching, and concurrency
• Good product sense, strong problem-solving skills, and excellent teamwork and communication abilities
• Knowledge of machine learning and familiarity with at least one mainstream machine learning framework (e.g., TensorFlow or PyTorch)
• Experience in designing high-traffic service architectures or working extensively with distributed computing

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Solid programming and algorithm foundations; proficient in Python, Go, C++, or other programming languages
• Strong backend development skills, including but not limited to storage, service orchestration, caching, and concurrency
• Good product sense, strong problem-solving skills, and excellent teamwork and communication abilities

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of machine learning and familiarity with at least one mainstream machine learning framework (e.g., TensorFlow or PyTorch)
• Experience in designing high-traffic service architectures or working extensively with distributed computing

Benefits

• May be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.​
• Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)