Senior Software Engineer, Recommendations - USDS

Responsibilities Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the best experience for our TikTok users. What You’ll Do Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system. Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, training example generation, real‑time online training, etc. Build globalized large‑scale recommendation system. Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields. 5+ years of experience building scalable systems. Experience in programming, including but not limited to the following languages: C, C++, Java, or Golang. Preferred Qualification: Experience in at least one of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, or big data frameworks (is a plus). USDS Reasonable Accommodation USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other protected reasons. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at Job Information For Pay Transparency: Compensation Description (Annually). The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177,688 – $341,734 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. Legal and Fair Chance 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: 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. Exercising sound judgment. #J-18808-Ljbffr TikTok USDS Joint Venture