Software Engineer, Recommendation Architecture ShortText

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

Our Team
We cover almost all short-text recommendation scenarios in TikTok, such as search suggestions, the video-related search bar, and comment entities. Our recommendation system supports personalized sorting for queries, optimizing the user experience and improving TikTok's search awareness. Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

Responsibilities
• Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system;
• Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc;
• Build globalized large-scale recommendation system;
• Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

About this role

Summary

Build and optimize scalable recommendation systems and data pipelines for TikTok.

Job title

Software Engineer, Recommendation Architecture

Experience level

entry level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must be in San Jose, CA; remote not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

CC++JavaGolangcommunication

Preferred skills

recommendationssearch enginemachine learningdistributed storagebig data

Specializations

recommendation systemdata pipelinesdistributed storagebig data
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City