Software Engineer

Position:
Technology Software Engineer Graduate (Ads Delivery) - 2027 Start

Company:
TikTok

Compensation:
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128,000 - $256,000 annually.

Location:
San Jose, USA

Employment type:
Regular

Short Summary:
The Brand Ads Team builds technologies that unlock business growth potential. This team owns several ads products and works on the end-to-end ads delivery tech stack. As a graduate, you will have opportunities to pursue bold ideas and tackle complex challenges.

Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize the delivery stack across pacing, allocation, traffic strategy, and delivery controls.
- Drive products from concept to launch with Product, Strategy, and cross-functional partners.
- Turn business goals into scalable delivery strategies and system designs.
- Own technical design, implementation, experimentation, launch, and iteration.
- Use data and experiments to diagnose problems and drive fast iteration.

Requirement:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Strong coding, debugging, and system design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to make clear engineering trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with large-scale backend, recommendation, or advertising systems.

Benefits:
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).