Tech Lead Software Engineer - Data Privacy and Security

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 team is missioned to ensure the privacy and safety of company-level data through the entire data life cycle from collection, transfer, usage to deletion.

On TikTok's tech stacks, data deletion(retention) during the life cycle poses significant challenges and is a high-priority initiative.

We integrate our functionalities deeply into Apache's big data ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Presto), and build world-class data security & privacy framework to support high efficient and seamless data life cycle management.

It's an emerging area where many companies and industry are heavily investing. Your work will impact billions of users and bring "data for good" social values.

Responsibilities

• Build full life-cycle data management solutions across various data infrastructures.
• Design and develop privacy frameworks and products, and optimize infrastructures to achieve better performance and reliability.
• Drive privacy and data governance efforts and work cross-functionally with Infra, Product and Policy teams.
• Respond to emergency needs of privacy and establish collaboration processes.
• Explore cutting-edge privacy technologies to ensure data usage complies with local regulations.

Qualifications

• Experienced in building large-scale backend services
• Proficiency in at least one of following languages : Java, Python, Golang and C++
• Solid communication and teamwork contribute to multi-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science or relevant disciplines with minimum 5 years of working experience
• Industry experience developing and implementing privacy features and solutions
• Experiences working on Big Data tech stack e.g., Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink etc.
• Experiences working on data lineage, scheduling services, and data retention.

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 https : / / shorturl.at / cdpT2