Senior Backend Software Engineer, Privacy AI

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Tik Tok Privacy AI

Location:

Seattle

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: Y8172

• Work closely with PMs to design user-friendly & efficient platform functionalities for data governance.
• Be responsible for the system design and functionality development of the privacy engineering frameworks and platforms.
• Work on anonymization/pseudonymization/encryption technologies to preserve user privacy in all ML data processing activities.
• Work closely with operations & business teams to address technical challenges when applying solutions throughout our product suite.
• Investigate the cutting-edge industry progress of privacy engineering and get feedback from business lines, continuously improve efficiency & stability of the solutions.

• In-depth understanding of computer principles, familiar with general server architecture, skilled use of various data structures and algorithms, proficient in a programming language.
• Good business scenarios & requirements understanding, able to design reasonable technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork spirit.
• With rigorous logical thinking.
• Bachelor's degree or above with 3 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience in delivering distributed systems and data infrastructure in a production setting.
• Experience of privacy awareness process design for SDLC, AI model training.
• Experience of data processing control solutions like purpose limitation, access control etc.
• Experience of data protection solutions like data classification, data de-identification etc.
• Rich experience in Internet product architecture design.
• Experience with data governance framework to register, manage, and control data lifecycle to meet privacy compliance requirements.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $202,160 - $368,220 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.

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:

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