Tech Lead Privacy Engineer- Red Team
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
1. Privacy and security assessment on TikTok's data protection system to find both privacy and security issues that can affect user's data
2. Build data protection system threat model to summarise the overall data leakage risks and help engineering teams to strengthen the protection system
3. Advanced privacy and security topics research
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
1. Privacy and security assessment on TikTok's data protection system to find both privacy and security issues that can affect user's data
2. Build data protection system threat model to summarise the overall data leakage risks and help engineering teams to strengthen the protection system
3. Advanced privacy and security topics research
Tech Lead Privacy Engineer- Red Team
Office
San Jose, California, United States
Full Time
August 19, 2025