Software Engineer, Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation

San Jose, California, US Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted April 1, 2026
Job description

Description

TikTok Ads is helping to power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for millions of advertisers, users, and influencers across the world, driving continuous innovation and significant impact in the digital advertising space. The Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation Team builds advertising systems and integrations that power ads from creation to delivery and the data that influences decisions along the way. This system spans multiple data centers, supports rapid product iterations, and develops key advertising features.

As part of our team, you will have excellent opportunities to build the end-to-end Ads system that encompasses the complete lifecycle, including massive data gathering and processing, highly concurrent, high-performance, and highly scalable advertising delivery architecture, etc.

Responsibilities
- Building and operating scalable and reliable ads serving infrastructure systems.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines.
- Working experience and extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend systems, and data pipelines.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design), coding skills and problem-solving skills.
- Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the Ads domain.
- Experience with building large-scale ads serving infrastructure.

About this role

Summary

Build and operate scalable ads serving infrastructure systems and collaborate across teams

Job title

Software Engineer, Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation

Experience level

entry level

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Jose, California, United States; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

large-scale backend systemsdata pipelinesalgorithmsdata structuressoftware design

Preferred skills

ads domainlarge-scale ads infrastructure

Specializations

backend systemsdata pipelinesads infrastructure
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City