Software Engineer - Data Architecture, TikTok US

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

Description

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.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do
- 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
- Experience in open source frameworks in the field of big data, e.g.Hadoop, Hive,Flink, FlinkSQL,Spark, Kafka, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, ElasticSearch etc.
- Experience in Java, C ++ and other programming languages
- Solid coding and troubleshooting ability

Preferred Qualifications:
- Willing to challenge questions that have no obvious answers, and have a strong enthusiasm for learning new technologies
- Experience of Peta Byte level data processing

About this role

Summary

Design and implement large-scale data systems for recommendation platforms at TikTok.

Job title

Software Engineer - Data Architecture

Experience level

null

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Jose, California, USA; on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

HadoopHiveFlinkSparkKafkaJavaC++troubleshooting

Preferred skills

PetaByte data processinglearning new technologies

Specializations

big datadata architecturedistributed systemsmachine learningdata visualization
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City