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Tech Lead, Database Acceleration

TikTok
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/7/2025

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

As a senior software engineer in the data platform team, you will have the opportunity to build, optimize and grow one of the largest data platforms in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on all kinds of systems in the data platform ecosystem. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.

  • Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business
  • Build the world-leading cloud native OLAP engine for PB level data sets
  • Optimize and enhance open source data frameworks, Spark SQL, Presto, Flink etc.
  • Responsible for architecting internal data warehouse and data lakes to support all business unites
  • Creating innovative solutions toward system scalability, reliability, and availability problems

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • Familiar with commonly used algorithms, data structures, network programming and multi-threaded programming
  • Experience with the Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink,, Flume etc.)
  • Experience with building and optimizing Big Data pipelines and architectures
  • TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

    TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to us at Dennis.C[redacted].

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