Data Engineer Graduate (Ads Data Application) - 2025 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok's immersive experience, global presence, and high engagement makes it the ideal marketing destination for business, big and small, to showcase their unique brand identity, connect with their consumers, and build strong lasting relationships over time. The Ads Data Team builds and manages the petabyte scale data infrastructure, batch/realtime pipelines and services to support Tiktok's global Ads business. We are committed to building a robust data foundation and scalable data applications, unblocking the full potential of advertising data to optimize advertiser experience, boost business growth, empower strategy execution.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to the company start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

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.

We are looking for passionate Data Engineers that have strong problem solving skills to join forces with talented cross functional partners (business operation, data science, engineering and product management) to solve some of the most interesting data challenges with efficiency and quality. In this role, you will contribute to the company's core business across innovative advertising products, campaign management and measurement solutions. You will see a direct impact from your day-to-day work to customer satisfaction and company growth.

Responsibilities:
1. Work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists/Analysts, and Software/Machine Learning Engineers and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver data solutions that meet business needs.
2. Evaluate, implement and maintain data infrastructure tools and technologies to support efficient data processing, storage and query.
3. Design, build and optimize scalable data pipelines to ingest, process and transform large volumes of data.
4. Design and implement robust data models and visualization to support complex analytical queries and reporting requirements.
5. Ensure the data integrity, accuracy and consistency of data by implementing data quality checks, validation processes and monitoring mechanisms.
6. Continously optimize data pipelines, queries and processes to improve performance, reduce latency and enhance scalability.
7. Provide rapid response to SLA oncall support to business critical data pipelines.
8. Create and maintain good documentation for data assets and promote best practices for data governance within the data user community.Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Experience as a Data Engineer or similar role in supporting data-centric business.
3. Strong knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
4. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go etc.
5. Solid understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts, data integration and ETL/ELT techniques.
6. Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience with big data technologies(e.g. Apache Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink) and working with terabyte to petabyte scale data.
2. Experience with cloud data warehouses(eg. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and modern business intelligence/data stack.
3. Experience with data governance, data privacy and compliance.
4. Experience in the advertising, e-commerce or gaming industry.
5. Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.