Data Engineer, Video Platform

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a Data Engineer for its Video Architecture Platform. The role builds, optimizes, and maintains data processing architectures and ETL pipelines, ensuring reliable, accurate data that supports service quality, user experience, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Craft optimal end to end data processing architecture and systems for new data and ETL pipelines
• Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable data pipelines to move and transform big data
• Implement and monitor quality control measures to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency
• Drive internal process improvements and automate manual processes for data quality and SLA management
• Create and maintain technical documentation, such as data dictionaries, data flow diagrams, and system documentation, to ensure efficient and effective data management and analysis
• Work closely with data engineering and various vertical teams within the Video Architecture platform and cross-functional teams within USDS

Preferred

• Demonstrated independent thinking capabilities and troubleshooting skills in large scale distributed systems
• Good communication and coordination skills
• Experience in building data solutions with AWS, GCP, Azure and other cloud services is a plus
• Large-Scale Distributed Systems
• Data Solutions Development
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• Cloud Services
• Independent Thinking
• Troubleshooting
• Communication
• Coordination

Company

• U.S. TikTok product interoperability and commercial activities
• Culver City, California, USA
• https://usdsjv.tiktok.com/
• Founded in 2026
• 1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience
• Good programming experience with SQL and at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, or Scala
• Experience in data analytics and data engineering ETL development, data pipeline design, implementation, and maintenance
• Experience with big data ecosystem suing Spark, Flink, Hive, YARN, Kafka
• Demonstrated independent thinking capabilities and troubleshooting skills in large scale distributed systems
• Good communication and coordination skills
• Experience in building data solutions with AWS, GCP, Azure and other cloud services is a plus

Required skills

• AWS, Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Data Analytics, Data Pipeline Design, Distributed Systems, ETL Development, Go, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Microsoft Azure, Python, SQL, Scala, YARN

Preferred skills

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Experience

• Mid level