Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Tiktok Business Integrity

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, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.

Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users' needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong software engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable and reliable software, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence.

Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building next-generation ads integrity system for TikTok Ads. We are seeking seasoned Software Engineers at all levels who can help us anticipate, predict potential threats, and build systems to protect against these threats. You will have a chance to work with a fully globalized team made up of great engineering talents in different countries, and work closely with cross-functional teams to build safe and trusted connections between users, businesses, and TikTok.

We are seeking tech lead software engineers who will lead the workstream for building integrity solution for Tiktok business, including modern user-centric applications and knowledge base systems with cutting edge technologies. You will also involve in comprehensive domain knowledge in ads moderation, risk control and policy. Understanding fraud, risk, quality control, and online advertising domain knowledge is a plus, but experience of building large-scale user-facing systems is most critical.

What You'll Do
• Build highly scalable systems and strategy including ad fraud detection, risk control, ads integrity systems to improve TikTok user's experiences with ads across the platform.
• Collaborate with strategy teams, product managers, policy teams, and other key stakeholders to define products and drive initiatives from an engineering viewpoint.
• Contribute to the success of a rapidly growing and evolving organization with speediness and quality.

Qualifications

- MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors with 7+ years of work experience,and 2+ years of experience managing or technically leading a software engineering team.
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general-purpose programming languages
- Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.
- Extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend, data pipeline, machine learning.
- Strong written/verbal communication and excellent teamwork skills; flexible and self-starter.
- Experienced in the design and implementation of integrity solutions, systems, and mechanisms

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 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 [email protected]

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210000 - $358000 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.