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# Software Engineer, Recommendations - USDS

- **Company:** Tiktok Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $136,800.0 - $359,720.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Distributed Data Store, Machine Learning, Online Service Provider, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Information Technology, Search Engines, Data Pipelines, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2c70c8003df3d9b3

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields - 3+ years of experience building scalable system - Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang Preferred Qualification: - Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

## Description

About The Team Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the best experience for our TikTok users. Responsibilities - What You'll Do - Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system; - Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, real-time online training, etc; - Build globalized large-scale recommendation system; - Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.


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