Backend Software Engineer, Security & Privacy - CapCut

About ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us?

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo?

Never. Courage? Always.

At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.

How we became the No.1 video editing app?

CapCut is an all-in-one video editing solution that helps you create incredible videos. With the mission of making content creation easier and more engaging, CapCut was first launched on mobile platforms in April 2020.

In less than a year, CapCut was released in Brazil, US, Indonesia, Japan and several other countries*. To better serve the diverse needs, CapCut released its online and PC version in 2022.

Starting in 2023, CapCut has continued to invest in AI technology to provide product features that are more accessible and easier to use.

As of today, CapCut's global monthly active users have exceeded 500 million. It has remained at the top of the download list in several app stores.

CapCut is currently available in over 170 countries / regions.

About the team

We are an incredible young team with passion. We enjoy learning new things and taking on challenges. Team culture here is open and inclusive.

Everyone can make things happen, good ideas will always win.

Today, we are continuously increasing our investment in AI technology to make content creation much easier for everyone, and we always take the protection of user privacy and data security very seriously.

Therefore, we've set up an engineering team (in both San Jose and Seattle), mainly focusing on AI technology and Security & Privacy in CapCut.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services and tools to build / integrate Security & Privacy systems for CapCut.
• Optimize backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability.
• Deliver best-in-class engineering excellence practices across all product engineering disciplines.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 1+ years of experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Golang / Java / Rust / C++.

Fresh graduates meeting the qualifications are also encouraged to apply.

• Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.
• In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL / Redis / Kafka etc.
• Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
• Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience of privacy and security technology is a big plus.

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life.

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.

ByteDance Inc. 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 :

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location.

Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses / incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match.

As well as Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

• Our time off and leave plans are : 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 as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.