Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer Tech Lead - Trust and Safety; Seattle
Listed on 2026-09-02
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Software Development
Full Stack Developer, Software Engineer, Software Architect
Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer Tech Lead - Trust and Safety (Seattle)
Location:
Seattle
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Code: A249216A
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ResponsibilitiesThe Trust and Safety(TnS) engineering team is responsible for protecting our users from harmful content and abusive behaviors. With the continuous efforts of our trust and safety engineering team, Tik Tok can provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.
We are in search of a seasoned Technical Lead to spearhead our engineering team dedicated to Trust and Safety's Risk and Response business. In this role, you will oversee a group of skilled engineers specializing in full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your primary responsibility will involve fostering seamless teamwork within the group and across cross-functional teams (XFN) that include Product Managers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and QAs.
Your leadership will be instrumental in establishing public trust through providing solutions to support risk and response business, especially escalation handling.
- Lead a team of engineers and collaborate with TnS experts, machine learning engineers, and other cross-functional teams on delivering key results
- Work with PM and other partner teams to shape the roadmap of TnS risk and response domain.
- Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Continuously improve the quality, efficiency, and security of the system
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Help Tik Tok's product teams design safety and abuse resistance into new products from the beginning
- Manage resources and budgets to optimize team performance and achieve business objectives.
- To design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications, systems, or services that power products used by over a billion people worldwide. You will translate product and technical requirements into software solutions using sound engineering principles and best practices. You will also get to write, review, debug, and improve code to raise the bar on quality, performance, and reliability at massive scale.
As an engineer here, you will partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver these solutions and continuously improve them based on real-world usage and feedback.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor or higher degree in computer science with at least 5 YOE
- 2+ years of experience in managing or technically leading a software engineering team.
- Strong experience in architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications and backend systems.
- Had solid user-facing product experience in building, designing, and scaling software architecture
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
- Experience of driving collaboration across cross functional teams on delivering shared goals.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience in trust and safety or risk control system design and implementation is preferred.
- Full-stack development background
- Strong product sense, with experience driving user-facing products/features from 0 to 1.
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $207480 - $368220 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…
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