Big Data Engineer, TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Infrastructure

Singapore Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

About the Team
E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. Our E-ecommerce Recommendation Infra team is responsible for building up and optimizing the infrastructure for such recommendation systems, so as to provide the most stable and best experience for our users. We work closely with applied machine learning engineers and build scalable systems to support all kinds of innovative algorithms and techniques.

The team is responsible for system stability and high availability, online services and offline data flow performance optimization, solving system bottlenecks, reducing cost overhead, building data and service mid-platform, realizing flexible and scalable high-performance storage and computing systems.

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

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Familiar with many open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
- Familiar with Java, C ++ and other programming languages
- Strong coding and trouble shooting ability

About this role

Summary

Design and implement scalable data systems for TikTok's e-commerce recommendations

Job title

Big Data Engineer, TikTok Ecommerce Recommendation Infrastructure

Experience level

null

Industry

software

Location requirements

Singapore, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

HadoopHiveFlinkSparkKafkaJavaC++

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

big datadistributed systemsdata architecturemachine learningdata mining
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Singapore

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