Technical Lead - TikTok Privacy & Security

- Collaborate with PM and partner teams to shape the team's roadmap.
- Define and drive the team's technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements.
- Continuously improve product quality, engineering efficiency, and security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor and grow team members, cultivating an environment that supports learning, development, and achievement for everyone.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Solid backend or full-stack development background, with a strong understanding of complex backend systems.
- Proven experience building, designing, and scaling user-facing products and their software architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration toward shared goals.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualification(s)
- 2+ years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or building privacy features and solutions.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 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-7684432216850483461

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-09-18T20:44:23