Machine Learning Engineer, Content and Service Ads - USDS

San JoseRegularR&DJob : A01332A

About the team The ads system at Tik Tok operates on a massive scale and serves millions of advertisers, clients and influencers across the world. The quality of the ads system highly depends on the ability to handle massive data, and machine learning is widely used to improve the quality of our ads. The USDS Content and Service Ads team empowers Tik Tok's global monetization (billion-dollar business) via efficiently delivering content and service ads on Tik Tok.

Our mission is to push the boundaries of large-scale ads delivery systems and lead the innovations of Tik Tok's personalized online advertising. Hence, you'll have a chance to get deeply involved in our large-scale distributed systems and state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. We are seeking innovative Software Engineers to drive our technology forward. You will spearhead key projects and elevate the team through strong technical leadership.

Responsibilities
- Lead projects committed to building, optimizing and operating automation procedures and efficiency toolings to empower large-scale Ads ranking, machine learning, data processing and storage systems.

- Develop backend services and platform capabilities that improve engineering efficiency, Dev Ops maturity, and the overall developer experience.

- Continuously optimize systems and infrastructure to improve availability, observability, maintainability, and performance.

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members and project peers.

- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.

- Lead the innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above, major in computer science or related technical disciplines.

- 3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or developing complex and scalable distributed systems.

- Experience in network architecture, database modeling, cloud systems and large-scale distributed systems.

- Excellent problem-solving skills, strategic thinking, and a strong ability to debug complex systems.

- Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way;

- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

- Experience in managing projects.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Ads domain.

- Experience with building large-scale ranking and machine learning infrastructure.

- Experience of Peta Byte level data processing.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $359720 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.

• 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; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

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