Software Engineer, Recommendation Infrastructure

Software Engineer, Recommendation Infrastructure

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A16289A

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 Tik Tok users.

• Build and maintain high-performance online services for the Tik Tok recommendation system.
• Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, training example generation, real-time online training, etc.
• Build a globalized large-scale recommendation system.
• Design and develop high-performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 5+ years of experience building scalable systems.
• Experience in programming, including but not limited to C, C++, Java, or Golang.
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Experience in at least one area of personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, or big data frameworks is a plus.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212,800 - $387,600 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. 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).

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 with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• Exercising sound judgment.