Big Data Engineer - TikTok Recommendation Architecture

Singapore Until 8/21/2026 3+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Our Company's sponsorship of a visa.

About The Team
Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

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 Qualification(s)
1. Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
2. 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.
3. Familiar with Java, C ++ and other programming languages
4. Strong coding and trouble shooting ability
5. Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies
6. At least 3 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience of Peta Byte level data processing is a plus

About this role

Summary

Design and build scalable data systems, optimize performance, and analyze large datasets.

Job title

Big Data Engineer - TikTok Recommendation Architecture

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Singapore-based, no visa sponsorship needed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

HadoopHiveFlinkSparkKafkaHBaseRedisRocksDBElasticSearchJavaC++

Preferred skills

Peta Byte data processing

Specializations

big datadistributed systemsmachine learningdata architecturenatural language processing
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Singapore

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