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Backend Engineer, TikTok ShortText Recommendation Architecture

Singapore💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems for TikTok's short-text recommendation architecture, supporting personalized sorting for search suggestions, video-related search bars, and comment entities.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (recommendation architecture)

Builds

Globalized large-scale recommendation system, high performance online services, and efficient data pipelines for candidate/profile/training example generation and real-time online training.

Domain

Social media, search, recommendation systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C, C++, Java, Golang, scalable system design, high performance computing, distributed storage systems, data pipeline engineering

Preferred skills

personalized recommendations, search engine optimization, machine learning, big data frameworks

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