Job Description

The mission of TikTok's Global Security Organization is to build and earn trust by reducing risk and securing our businesses and products. Also known as "GSO", this team is the foundation of our efforts to keep TikTok safe, secure, and operating at scale for over 1 billion people around the world. We work to ensure that the TikTok platform is safe and secure, that our users' experience and their data remains safe from external or internal threats, and that we comply with global regulations wherever TikTok operates.

Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us — whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop — GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience.

The GSO provides industry-leading security and privacy services to company, guided by four principles: trust and transparency, business enablement, risk-informed decision-making, and proactive risk reduction. We strive to build sustainable, world-class security capabilities.

As a Software Developer in the GSO, you will report directly to the Engineering Lead. Your responsibilities include:

- Collaborating with product managers, business operations teams, developers, and cross-functional engineers to define and deliver solutions.

- Developing, maintaining, and optimizing advanced security applications using microservices, serverless architecture, REST, Python/Java, Message Queue, Spark, relational, and non-relational databases.

- Designing and implementing reusable, modular, and scalable services, classes, or modules.

- Analyzing and optimizing data pipeline performance, focusing on data preparation, transformation, and loading times.

- Innovating intelligent solutions leveraging ML and LLMs for advanced functionalities and automation.

Responsibilities

- Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot in-house applications for internal and external teams.

- Review legacy application code for reusability and customization, including microservices options.

- Utilize frameworks and libraries such as REST, gRPC, FaskAPI/Flask, Asyncio, Pytest, unittest, Pandas, Numpy, etc.

- Optimize performance for a fast and seamless user experience.

- Stay updated with the latest technologies and educate engineers and PMs on new possibilities.

- Define metrics and create/maintain dashboards using in-house/external tools.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with business and technical teams to gather functional requirements.