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# Software Development Engineer - Data

- **Company:** Tiktok Inc
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, R (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Backend, Build Management, Apache Flume, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Presto, Vertica
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/tiktok/senior-software-development-engineer-data

## About the Role

Minimum Qualification

 * BS/MS from a quantitative field of study (CS, STEM, etc)
 * Experience in API, backend, and data services development
 * Experience in Big Data stack(Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.)
 * Experience with ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading) or ELT, and architecting data systems
 * Ability to ship code in Java, Python and SQL
 * Solid communication and collaboration skills

## Description

Team Introduction
The Data Platform team works on building data infrastructures and data products to support business engineering teams at TikTok.

As a Software Development Engineer in the data platform team, you will have the opportunity to build, optimize and grow one of the largest data platforms in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on all kinds of systems in the data platform ecosystem. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do

 * Design and build data transformations efficiently and reliably for different purposes (e.g. reporting, growth analysis, multi-dimensional analysis)
 * Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business
 * Establish solid design and best engineering practice for engineers as well as non-technical people., 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


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