Join us as we inspire
creativity and bring joy to
millions of users worldwide.
@2025 TikTok
Responsibilities
Team Introduction: The mission of TikTok's Global Security Organization is to build and earn trust by reducing risk and securing our businesses and products. Also known as "GSO", this team is the foundation of our efforts to keep TikTok safe, secure, and operating at scale for over 1 billion people around the world. We work to ensure that the TikTok platform is safe and secure, that our users' experience and their data remains safe from external or internal threats, and that we comply with global regulations wherever TikTok operates. Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us — whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop — GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience. As part of the Threat Detection and Response function, the Detection Engineering team focuses on improving our detection capabilities to identify malicious threats. This can involve data engineering to enrich and scale the pipelines, or analysing adversarial tradecraft and developing signals or creating tools to improve our Detection and Response capabilities. The data engineer for security builds and maintains robust data pipelines that ensure security data and logs are collected, processed, and produced in a sound and legally defensible manner. - Big data management: Architect and manage large-scale data storage solutions like data lakes and warehouses to handle petabytes of data from end points, servers, network devices, and cloud environments. - Data management and loading: Ingest, integrate, and normalize data into SOC or other platforms to analyze. This includes handling various native file formats and metadata. - Workflow automation: Build and maintain data pipelines to automate and orchestrate data processing, including data ingestion, processing, and production, ensuring smooth data flow between components and services; This increases efficiency and reduces manual errors. - Create requirements, work with stakeholders to design, implement, and deploy security tools
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Applicable experience in Backend Development. SRE, Data Engineering, Programming etc - Programming: Strong proficiency in Python,Go for building automated data pipelines and scripts. - Database expertise: In-depth knowledge of SQL, as well as NoSQL databases, and experience with database architecture and data modeling. - Big data frameworks: Hands-on experience with big data and streaming frameworks such as Apache Spark, Kafka, or Flink, capable of handling high-throughput and large-scale data processing. - Cloud computing: Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, which are often central to large-scale data investigations. - Performance & Reliable Optimization: Strong ability to perform system performance tuning, availability monitoring, and issue investigation; experienced in collaborating with SRE team to enhance reliability. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in at least one of the following security products: SIEM/SOAR experience, WAF, HIDS, NTA, EDR or DLP, with practical experience in strategy development and knowledge of industry best practices/ frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, etc). - Experience with large-scale data environment cost optimization,data pipeline,data lineage visualization, or related projects. - Familiar with monitoring frameworks, like Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. - Possess certifications in Data Engineering,Cloud Data,Spark, or Kafka.
Job Information
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.