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TikTok

Software Engineer, Recommendation Architecture ShortText

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

Education
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.

About the job

Build and optimize the services, data pipelines, and computing and storage systems that power TikTok’s short-text recommendation scenarios.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain high-performance online recommendation services and efficient, reliable data pipelines.
  • Build a globalized, large-scale recommendation system.
  • Design and develop high-performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Programming experience; examples include C, C++, Java, or Golang.
  • Effective communication skills, ownership, and drive.

Nice to have

  • Experience in personalized recommendations, search engines, machine learning, distributed storage systems, or big data frameworks.

Tools

C, C++, Java, Golang

AI focus

The role builds recommendation systems and pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, training-example generation, and real-time online training.

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