Backend Engineer ( Risk Systems ) - TikTok BRIC (Singapore)

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. Why Join Us? Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us. The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team is missioned:

• To protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers;
• By securing platform health and community experience authenticity;
• Through building infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to collaborate with many cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

The BRIC team works to minimize the damage of inauthentic behaviors on TikTok, covering multiple classical and novel community and business risk areas such as account integrity, engagement authenticity, anti-spam, API and growth health, live streaming security, and financial safety (ads or e-commerce), etc. In this team, you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and robust, intelligent and privacy-safe, secure and product-friendly systems and solutions.

The work needs to be fast, transferrable, while still down to the ground to making quick and solid differences.

Responsibilities

• Work on infrastructure and tools to enable construction, deployment, and serving of risk defense algorithms and machine learning models at scale.
• Improve capacities of risk prevention, perception, and remediation across various TikTok businesses.
• Build tools and automated procedures to support risk analytics and defense enforcement.
• Keep risk control solutions state-of-art on fronts of data security, modularization, privacy, and compliance.
• Help improve end-to-end risk service/platform/tooling SLA.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or degrees above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Programming Language, High Performance Computing, Security Research or other relevant majors.
• Solid coding skills and experience with building distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more tools of Linux, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes; can quickly pick up others.
• Experience of strong industry experience in building distributed backend systems at scale.
• Successful tracking records in solving infrastructure pain-points (e.g. complex I/O requirements). Strong coding (backend, infra, algorithm) and system design ability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus given to familiarity with machine learning infrastructure or applications, or social/content platform realtime stream computing systems.
• Bonus given to proficient user of Go or Rust.
• Consistently showing ownership.
• Proactive and skillful in communication.
• Experience from a large-scale internet business.

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