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TikTok · 3 months ago

Software Engineer - Data Architecture, TikTok US

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$119K/yr - $259K/yr

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, aiming to inspire creativity and bring joy. They are seeking a Software Engineer - Data Architecture to design and implement scalable data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems, ensuring system stability and developing analytics applications for data transformation.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement a reasonable offline data architecture for large-scale recommendation systems

Design and implement flexible, scalable, stable and high-performance storage and computing systems

Trouble-shooting of the production system, design and implement the necessary mechanisms and tools to ensure the stability of the overall operation of the production system

Build industry-leading distributed systems such as storage and computing to provide reliable infrastructure for massive data and large-scale business systems

Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software

Apply data mining, data modelling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyse information from large structured and unstructured datasets

Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well

Qualification

Data architectureBig data frameworksJavaC++Data miningMachine learningTroubleshootingEnthusiasm for learningData visualization

Required

Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

Experience in open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc

Experience in Java, C ++ and other programming languages

Solid coding and trouble shooting ability

Preferred

Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies

Experience of Peta Byte level data processing

Benefits

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

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)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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