Tech Lead Software Engineer-Data Validation
TikTok
Office
San Jose, California, United States
Full Time
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
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
Tech Lead Software Engineer-Data Validation
Office
San Jose, California, United States
Full Time
August 6, 2025