Senior Backend Engineer - Privacy by Design & Security
Summary
Design and build backend services for TikTok’s privacy-focused infrastructure, focusing on data protection, encryption, and anonymization across global microservices and storage systems.
TikTok in San Jose is seeking a software engineer to help protect user data within a privacy‑oriented infrastructure. You will design and deploy global services spanning API gateways, microservices, storages, and message queues to support privacy across data lifecycles.
The role emphasizes implementing privacy‑by‑design, anonymization, encryption, and collaboration with PMs to tackle privacy challenges across the product suite.