Software Engineer Graduate ( Global Live) - 2027 Start

Software Engineer Graduate (Tik Tok Global Live) - 2027 Start

Discover a career that energizes and excites you every day.

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A160812A

• Partner with product managers, data scientists, UI designers, and other engineers to iterate on data-driven initiatives across content moderation, penalty, and relevant governance systems.
• Design and evolve backend system architecture to ensure service reliability, performance, and scalability at Tik Tok Global Live traffic scale.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend features, from requirements analysis and technical design through production rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Drive technical decisions on complex, ambiguous problems and continuously raise the engineering bar for code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
• Mentor other engineers and share your expertise, experience, and perspectives to strengthen the team's technical capability.

• Minimum Qualifications:
  
  - Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, proficient in at least one coding language, including but not limited to Go, Java, Python, C++.
• Curiosity towards new technology and outstanding ability to analyze and solve problems.
• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and a proven track record of building scalable, extensible, and maintainable backend systems in production.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  
  - Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered applications, such as agentic workflow, RAG, MCP, and prompt engineering, or model evaluation pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, database, and message queue.
• Experience with content moderation systems, including human review workflows and machine-based moderation pipelines.
• Experience working on Trust & Safety, ecosystem governance, or policy enforcement platforms.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks relevant to online platforms (e.g., DSA, COPPA, GDPR, or regional content policy requirements).

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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