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TikTok

Backend Engineer Graduate (User Growth) - 2027 Start

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline; completing or recently completed.

About the job

Build backend systems and AI-enabled tools for TikTok user growth, content optimization, organic acquisition, and experimentation across global markets.

What you'll do

  • Develop backend systems, scalable services, and data pipelines for growth, search and discovery, content optimization, and traffic acquisition.
  • Apply AIGC to content generation and evaluation, and contribute to AI/Agentic workflow and Auto Research systems.
  • Collaborate across product, data, algorithm, and design teams to deliver reliable production systems with measurable impact.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
  • Familiarity with one or more of Golang, Python, Java, or C++, and a good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Familiarity with backend development, system design, microservice architecture, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with databases, cache systems, and cloud-native components such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, or Kubernetes.

Nice to have

  • Internship, project, or research experience in backend development, distributed systems, microservices, data platforms, or large-scale consumer-facing systems.
  • Experience or strong interest in AI-related backend systems, AI agents, search, recommendation, content platforms, or growth engineering.

Tools

Golang, Python, Java, C++, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Docker

AI focus

Build and support AIGC content generation and evaluation, prompt workflows, AI/Agentic automation, and Auto Research systems.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)