TikTok
Backend Engineer Graduate (Social Foundation) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California, United States of America · Junior · Internship
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About the role
- By providing "Graph Data as a Service"-encompassing user connections, interactions, and high-performance counters-we empower TikTok's diverse business scenarios with millisecond-level multi-hop queries and real-time graph mining.
- We are looking for talented individuals to join our team.
- As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance data storage and management systems for trillion-scale social graph data, ensuring seamless integration and rapid iteration for mission-critical applications.
- Develop distributed graph database engines capable of handling billions of vertices and trillions of edges, enabling millisecond-level multi-hop queries and real-time graph reasoning.
- Build a real-time graph mining platform to extract social relationships, patterns, clusters, and communities, fueling product strategies and personalized recommendations.
- Lead the integration of the Social Graph with core systems (e.g., recommendation, search, risk control) to support social interactions, live-streaming, and various TikTok business use cases.
- Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications
Requirements
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
- Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.
Company info
- The Social Foundation team is the technical bedrock of TikTok's global ecosystem, dedicated to building a world-class social data platform and industry-leading graph engine.
- We operate at the forefront of large-scale graph computing, designing the core infrastructure that processes trillions of edges to deliver real-time relationship insights to billions of users.
- Our mission is to build a robust, overseas graph infrastructure that fuels global connectivity, powering mission-critical features like friend recommendations, live streaming, and risk control to redefine the social experience worldwide.
- Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
- Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply.
- The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
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