Backend Engineer Graduate (TikTok Vertical Recommendation Architecture) - 2027 Start
TikTok, San Jose, California
What you will do
- Participate in the design of the recommendation system to enhance development efficiency, performance, scalability, and recommendation effectiveness.
- Build and maintain high-performance, high-availability online services (retrieval, ranking orchestration, feature and index services) for the TikTok recommendation system.
- Build efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, and training-example generation.
- Pursue extreme performance optimization in the storage layer, computing layer, or application layer; optimize latency (P99), throughput, and resource cost at scale.
- Troubleshoot production issues and build mechanisms that ensure operational stability, including capacity planning, disaster recovery, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with machine learning engineers to productionize models efficiently and safely.
What you need
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.