Tech Lead Software Engineer, Ads Infra - Big Data - USDS

Responsibilities About the team: The ads system at TikTok operates on a massive scale and serves millions of advertisers, clients and influencers across the world. The quality of the ads system highly depends on the ability to handle massive data, and machine learning is widely used to improve the quality of our ads. The USDS Ads Infra team is responsible for building highly efficient, scalable and stable infrastructure to support Ads machine learning, ranking and big data systems. We are seeking innovative Software Engineers to join our team. You will drive key technical projects and play a pivotal role in elevating our engineering capabilities. Drive projects committed to building and operating innovative big data computing frameworks and storage systems to empower large-scale Ads serving and machine learning systems. Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts. Drive the innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree or above, major in computer science or related technical disciplines. 5+ years of hands‑on experience in big data processing and storage frameworks, e.g. Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Kafka, Hive, HBase, Redis, RocksDB, etc. Strong Computer Science fundamentals (coding, algorithms, data structures, software design) and problem‑solving skills. Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way. Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. Preferred Qualifications Experience in Ads domain. Experience with building large‑scale ranking and machine learning infrastructure. Experience of Peta Byte level data processing. Job Information Compensation: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198,360 - $416,100 annually. 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: 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. Reasonable Accommodation USDS 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr TikTok USDS Joint Venture