Senior Software Engineer, Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation
Apply NowCompany: TikTok
Location: San Jose, CA 95123
Description:
Responsibilities
TikTok Ads is helping to power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for millions of advertisers, users, and influencers across the world, driving continuous innovation and significant impact in the digital advertising space. The Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation Team builds advertising systems and integrations that power ads from creation to delivery and the data that influences decisions along the way. This system spans multiple data centers, supports rapid product iterations, and develops key advertising features.
As part of our team, you will have excellent opportunities to build the end-to-end Ads system that encompasses the complete lifecycle, including massive data gathering and processing, highly concurrent, high-performance, and highly scalable advertising delivery architecture, etc.
Responsibilities
- Building and operating scalable and reliable ads serving infrastructure systems.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines.
- Experience and extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend systems, and data pipelines.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design), coding skills and problem-solving skills.
- Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship.
Preferred requirements
- Experience in the Ads domain.
- Experience with building large-scale ads serving infrastructure.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 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.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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 Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
TikTok Ads is helping to power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for millions of advertisers, users, and influencers across the world, driving continuous innovation and significant impact in the digital advertising space. The Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation Team builds advertising systems and integrations that power ads from creation to delivery and the data that influences decisions along the way. This system spans multiple data centers, supports rapid product iterations, and develops key advertising features.
As part of our team, you will have excellent opportunities to build the end-to-end Ads system that encompasses the complete lifecycle, including massive data gathering and processing, highly concurrent, high-performance, and highly scalable advertising delivery architecture, etc.
Responsibilities
- Building and operating scalable and reliable ads serving infrastructure systems.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines.
- Experience and extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend systems, and data pipelines.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design), coding skills and problem-solving skills.
- Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship.
Preferred requirements
- Experience in the Ads domain.
- Experience with building large-scale ads serving infrastructure.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 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.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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 Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request