Tech Lead, TikTok MultiMedia Data Platform

Responsibilities

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.

The TikTok MultiMedia Data Platform is responsible for building a scalable, reliable and cost-efficient data pipeline and data warehouse for the multimedia domain.

We build valuable data products on top of the data platform to enable data scientists and machine learning engineers to make data-driven strategy decisions to drive user experience optimization and cost savings.

We are looking for a tech lead to be responsible for building and leading the TikTok MultiMedia data platform team. You are responsible for business and tech planning, architecture design, cross-team collaboration.

You will have the opportunity to partner closely with globalized engineering and product teams in a high-impact and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities :

1. Tech Lead the TikTok MutliMedia data platform team.

2. Set the product vision and strategy with product and business teams, and oversee the engineering roadmap.

3. Collaborate with relevant teams to do business and technical planning.

4. Manage project priorities and product deliveries. Drive technical initiatives from execution to delivery.

5. Build a productive R&D process.

Qualifications

1. BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors

2. 5+ years of software engineering experience in a big data environment

3. 2+ years of tech lead experience.

4. Great expertise in Apache big data systems, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Flink, Clickhouse, etc

5. Great product sense and prioritization skills

6. Strong communication skills and collaboration skills

7. Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages including, but not limited to : Java, Scala, Python.

8. Ability to think critically and formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.

9. Open source committee will be a plus

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 redacted .