Tech Lead Software Engineer-Data Validation
Responsibilities
About the Team
PDPO(Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry leading way. This team is the expert in the landscape of privacy risks and passionate about consulting across the company on implementing the proper safeguards and technical mitigations to ensure that our users' privacy is honored across the TikTok's products and platforms.
Our mission is to protect personal data and privacy for billions of users on TikTok platform, let users explore, create and connect with each other with trust. On the path of constructing and consolidating a reliable and resilient tool, framework, architecture and relative workflow, you will face challenges of ensuring high quality and stability with global multi-datacenter deployment, high-concurrency micro service, and you will face global cooperation.
Responsibilities
As a tech lead software engineer , your responsibilities are:
- Work closely with PMs to design user friendly & efficient platform functionalities for data governance.
- Be responsible for the system design and functionality development of the privacy engineering frameworks and platforms.
- Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business
- Work on anonymization/psudomization/encryption technologies to preserve user privacy in all ML data processing activities.
- Work closely with operations & business teams to address technical challenges when applying solutions throughout our product suite.
- Investigate the cutting-edge industry progress of privacy engineering and get feedback from business lines, continuously improve efficiency & stability of the solutions.
-Mentor software engineers on the team
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree or above with 5 years of software engineering experience. Proficient in one mainstream programming language: C++/Java/Golang/etc, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems.
2. In-depth understanding of computer principles, familiar with general server architecture, skilled use of various data structures and algorithms; solid understanding of object-oriented programming
3. Good business scenarios & requirements understanding, able to design reasonable technical solutions.
Strong communication skills and teamwork spirit.
4. Familiar with classic mainstream databases: Mysql/redis/mongodb/Hbase/Hive and messaging systems such as kafka/rocketmq.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience of privacy awareness process design for SDLC, AI model training.
2. Experience of data processing control solutions like purpose limitation, access control etc.
3. Experience of data protection solutions like data classification, data de-identification etc.
4. Rich experience in Internet product architecture design.
5. Experience with data governance framework to register, manage, and control data lifecycle to meet privacy compliance requirements.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $208800 - $438000 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.
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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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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