Software Engineer, TikTok Agentic Creation - TTEP

Our team, Agentic Creation - Effect Platform nurtures TikTok’s global creator ecosystem by covering TikTok creation businesses across the tools, website and TikTok app. We are responsible for creator acquisition, activation, retention and we establish the whole platform with multiple key modules, e.g. rewards, inspiration, activities, analytics and badges, inside the major landing scenarios mentioned above. What’s more, we are actively building AI agents along with operation platform and supporting key agentic product iterations to improve operational efficiency and the overall experience in creation. Our team’s mission is to become the world’s most influential asset creation and expression platform. Currently, the engineering team is fully closed-loop in the US. Join us and build more user-facing products with cutting-edge agentic technologies! As a software engineer at TTEP, you will participate in fullstack systems that include large-scale frontend, backend, big data pipelines and AI Agent infrastructure. You will closely work with product managers, product ops and data scientists on project delivery and make contributions to business metrics, not limited to publish rate, viral supply and creator retention. Responsibilities - Partner with cross functional teams e.g. product, operation, data science and engineering teams to translate business goals into measurable engineering efforts and deliver the best usability experience for external global creators. - Deliver high-impact AI agents to support both product and operation requirements for more viral asset supplies. Evolve team’s agentic architecture, not limited to agent workflow, MCP servers, knowledge base, evaluation and quality solutions. - Deliver key creator module iterations, not limited to rewards and analytics system from creator-facing product flows to the backend services, data warehouse and operations platforms. Guard creator safety and fund security, iterate strategies with product risk control and deliver compliance requirements. - Participate in backend system upgrades, not limited to evolving service topology, access control governance, metadata management and disaster-recovery. Improve multi-regional stability, reliability and performance.

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field. Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems and system designs. - Good backend expertise in Go (or comparable language e.g. Java), familiar with RPC & HTTP services / RDS / MQ and cloud services. Know modern web frontend (TypeScript / React) and able to deliver full-stack features with AI coding. - Have basic understanding of agentic systems, not limited to LLM, MCPs, prompts, memories and at least one agent framework. - Strong product sense, good cross-functional communication skills to align PMs, Ops, design teams and other xFN stakeholders on technical trade-offs Preferred Qualifications - Have backgrounds in delivering large scale creator-facing / UGC platforms. - Have hands-on experience and strong understanding of big data warehouse and proficient experience in Hive / Clickhouse developments and stability management. - Have hands-on experience building agentic systems in production, not limited to A2A, MCP servers, evaluation pipelines, prompt versioning, or LLM observability platforms. - Have hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented knowledge bases, not limited to: document ingestion, chunking, embedding generation, vector indexing, retrieval, reranking, and grounding model output in retrieved evidence with traceable citation.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 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.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok’s global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok’s mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We’re resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an “Always Day 1” mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request