Overview
On Site
USD 118,657.00 - 187,200.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Onboarding
SAP BASIS
PASS
Evaluation
FOCUS
Data Engineering
Data Processing
Data Collection
Reporting
Artificial Intelligence
Workflow
Incident Management
Collaboration
Legal
Computer Science
Data Science
Analytics
Mathematics
Python
SQL
API
Extract
Transform
Load
Big Data
Apache Hive
Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink
Data Visualization
Tableau
Dashboard
Conflict Resolution
Problem Solving
Communication
Presentations
Work Ethic
Data Security
Regulatory Compliance
Privacy
Insurance
Life Insurance
Management
Information Technology
Video
LOS
Recruiting
Job Details
Location :
San Jose
Employment Type :
Regular
Job Code :
A53929
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Responsibilities
About the team PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Office) leads and oversees TikTok's privacy initiatives, ensuring industry-leading standards and safeguarding user privacy across all products and platforms. Our team specializes in identifying privacy risks and providing technical solutions to ensure privacy compliance. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. Online Assessment Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment through CodeSignal. About the role We are looking for a Data Engineer to support the Risk and Governance organization within PDPO. This role will focus on enhancing the foundational data engineering infrastructure, building automated pipelines, and integrating data from APIs to drive privacy-related insights and monitoring. Key responsibilities include: - Build scalable monitoring systems with automated alerts for privacy compliance across TikTok's product features. - Enhance and optimize current data infrastructure, improving data processing and pipeline performance. - Design and build automated pipelines for data collection, transformation, and reporting. - Develop data integrations via APIs to ensure seamless and reliable data ingestion. - Collaborate with the team to explore the integration of AI and agent-based systems into data workflows. - Conduct data investigations and analysis to detect privacy risks and support incident response. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, security, and legal) to deliver robust data solutions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Analytics, Mathematics or related technical fields. - Solid programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in schema design and ETL development. - Experience with API integration and automated data pipeline design. - Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink), and familiarity with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, dashboards). - Strong problem-solving, communication and presentation skills, and self-driven work ethic. Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of privacy, data security, or compliance is a plus. - Familiarity with TikTok's product features is a plus. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: ;br>
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $187200 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
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San Jose
Employment Type :
Regular
Job Code :
A53929
Apply to this job
Share this listing:
Responsibilities
About the team PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Office) leads and oversees TikTok's privacy initiatives, ensuring industry-leading standards and safeguarding user privacy across all products and platforms. Our team specializes in identifying privacy risks and providing technical solutions to ensure privacy compliance. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. Online Assessment Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment through CodeSignal. About the role We are looking for a Data Engineer to support the Risk and Governance organization within PDPO. This role will focus on enhancing the foundational data engineering infrastructure, building automated pipelines, and integrating data from APIs to drive privacy-related insights and monitoring. Key responsibilities include: - Build scalable monitoring systems with automated alerts for privacy compliance across TikTok's product features. - Enhance and optimize current data infrastructure, improving data processing and pipeline performance. - Design and build automated pipelines for data collection, transformation, and reporting. - Develop data integrations via APIs to ensure seamless and reliable data ingestion. - Collaborate with the team to explore the integration of AI and agent-based systems into data workflows. - Conduct data investigations and analysis to detect privacy risks and support incident response. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, security, and legal) to deliver robust data solutions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Analytics, Mathematics or related technical fields. - Solid programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in schema design and ETL development. - Experience with API integration and automated data pipeline design. - Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink), and familiarity with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, dashboards). - Strong problem-solving, communication and presentation skills, and self-driven work ethic. Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of privacy, data security, or compliance is a plus. - Familiarity with TikTok's product features is a plus. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: ;br>
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $187200 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
Apply to this job
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