Senior Data Engineer, Data Application

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TikTok's immersive experience, global presence, and high engagement makes it the ideal marketing destination for business, big and small, to showcase their unique brand identity, connect with their consumers, and build strong lasting relationships over time. The Ads Data Team builds and manages the petabyte scale data infrastructure, batch/realtime pipelines and services to support Tiktok's global Ads business. We are committed to building a robust data foundation and scalable data applications, unblocking the full potential of advertising data to optimize advertiser experience, boost business growth, empower strategy execution.

We are looking for passionate Data Engineers that have strong problem solving skills to join forces with talented cross functional partners (business operation, data science, engineering and product management) to solve some of the most interesting data challenges with efficiency and quality. In this role, you will contribute to the company's core business across innovative advertising products, campaign management and measurement solutions. You will see a direct impact from your day-to-day work to customer satisfaction and company growth.

Responsibilities:
1. Work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists/Analysts, and Software/Machine Learning Engineers and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver data solutions that meet business needs.
2. Evaluate, implement and maintain data infrastructure tools and technologies to support efficient data processing, storage and query.
3. Design, build and optimize scalable data pipelines to ingest, process and transform large volumes of data.
4. Design and implement robust data models and visualization to support complex analytical queries and reporting requirements.
5. Ensure the data integrity, accuracy and consistency of data by implementing data quality checks, validation processes and monitoring mechanisms.
6. Continously optimize data pipelines, queries and processes to improve performance, reduce latency and enhance scalability.
7. Provide rapid response to SLA oncall support to business critical data pipelines.
8. Create and maintain good documentation for data assets and promote best practices for data governance within the data user community.
9. Coordinate project management and define business domain data development roadmap
10. Influence product and cross-functional teams to identify data opportunities to drive bigger impact.
11. Mentor junior team members by giving actionable feedback to improve their performance.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Proven 5 years' experience as a Data Engineer or similar role in supporting data-centric business.
3. Strong knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
4. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go etc.
5. Solid understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts, data integration and ETL/ELT techniques.
6. Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
7. Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience with big data technologies(e.g. Apache Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink) and working with terabyte to petabyte scale data.
2. Experience with cloud data warehouses(eg. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and modern business intelligence/data stack.
3. Experience with data governance, data privacy and compliance.
4. Experience in the advertising, e-commerce or gaming industry.

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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $280000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.