Software Engineer, Data Privacy & Infrastructure - USDS

Responsibilities
- DLM Platform Engineering: Design and maintain high-throughput backend services that manage data retention, archival, and purging policies across heterogeneous storage (HDFS, ClickHouse, MySQL, etc.).
- Metadata & Lineage Systems: Build and scale a centralized metadata repository that maps complex data relationships, enabling real-time auditing of data flows.
- Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs): Implement and optimize systems for data masking, pseudonymization, and differential privacy to protect user identity in analytics and ML pipelines.
- Residual Scanning: Develop "anti-leakage" tools that proactively scan distributed environments for orphaned or misplaced sensitive data.
- Compliance Infrastructure: Architect the API layer that allows other engineering teams to integrate privacy-by-design into their own services seamlessly.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Backend Engineering: 2+ years of experience in Go (Golang), Java, or C++
- Big Data & Infrastructure: Experience working with high-volume data ecosystems (e.g., Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink, or Kubernetes).
- Database Mastery: Deep understanding of Database Design, SQL, and NoSQL internals, especially regarding how data is physically stored and deleted.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Privacy Domain Knowledge: Prior experience in Privacy Engineering, GDPR/CCPA compliance, or Data Governance.
- Data Lineage Experience: Familiarity with data cataloging or lineage tools (e.g., Apache Atlas, Amundsen, or internal proprietary versions).
- Security Mindset: Understanding of encryption-at-rest/in-transit and access control (IAM) frameworks.
- Scaling Impact: Experience managing "Data Deletion" at scale-where a single request must trigger actions across thousands of distributed nodes.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 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.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA

Job ID: TikTok-7605714843748878645

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-13T19:57:48