TikTok
Software Engineer Graduate (Global E-commerce-Search) - 2027 Start
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and operate large-scale search infrastructure and services that power product discovery on TikTok Shop.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate components of search and distributed systems, including online services and data pipelines.
- Contribute to retrieval, indexing, query processing, ranking infrastructure, or AI-enabled search; improve performance and reliability using production metrics.
- Collaborate with search, machine-learning, product, and infrastructure teams; participate in design discussions, reviews, testing, monitoring, and incident learning.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Programming experience in at least one general-purpose language, such as C++, Go, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or modular software design.
- Familiarity with software-engineering practices including testing, debugging, version control, and code review.
Nice to have
- Technical internships, research, open-source contributions, or substantial academic or personal projects.
- Experience or familiarity with distributed systems, search and information retrieval, data-processing frameworks, AI/ML infrastructure, or performance profiling.
Tools
C++, Go, Java, Python, FAISS, HNSW, Kafka, Flink
AI focus
Contribute to AI-enabled search capabilities; preferred experience includes AI or machine-learning infrastructure, model serving, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic systems.
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