Software Engineer — Governance Platform & Enablement
TikTok USDS Joint Venture
20 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
San Jose, California, United States
$136,800 - $259,200 USD yearly
Engineer
Responsibilities
We are a core Governance Engineering team within the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, enabling data protection, software assurance, content assurance, and governance efficiency for hundreds of millions of U.S. users.
We build and operate scalable privacy and compliance platforms, governance workflows, systems of record, evidence management, code intelligence, and shared services. Through platform engineering, end-to-end development, Agentic automation, developer-first tooling, and applied research, we turn complex governance requirements into reliable, scalable, and auditable solutions.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to build and evolve GPCP (Global Privacy Compliance Platform), applications and reusable shared services that help Security and Privacy teams put governance requirements into practice across complex systems and workflows.
You’ll work across frontend and backend systems, developing intuitive user experiences, scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and reusable platform components. Depending on your strengths, you may focus more deeply on application development or backend platform capabilities while contributing to end-to-end solutions.
You’ll own features from technical design through production, helping GPCP and its shared foundations become more extensible, reliable, and intelligent.
Responsibilities
- Build GPCP and shared services. Develop scalable full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting compliance workflows, evidence management, and cross-system operations.
- Develop reusable platform capabilities. Build shared APIs, SDKs, UI components, domain models, data contracts, and integration frameworks to accelerate application development and onboarding while leveraging existing systems of record.
- Modernize platform architecture. Simplify dependencies and improve scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability through backward-compatible migrations.
- Enable governance workflows and intelligent automation. Build workflow automation, evidence integrations, and AI-powered tools that improve operational efficiency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Own end-to-end delivery. Translate requirements into technical designs and documentation; implement, test, deploy, monitor, and support production services.
- Champion engineering excellence and security. Apply secure SDLC, authentication and authorization, API security, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability practices.
- Collaborate across teams. Partner with Privacy, Security, Legal, Operations, Product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, extensible solutions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and maintaining production applications or backend services, with proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of API design, service integration, and application architecture.
- Experience with data modeling, relational or NoSQL databases, and data-access patterns.
- Experience developing reliable backend services or complex frontend applications using modern frameworks such as React, with an understanding of API integration and production performance.
- Experience delivering features end to end, including design, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into maintainable technical solutions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building full-stack applications with React, TypeScript, reusable UI components, design systems, or complex data-intensive interfaces.
- Experience building enterprise platforms, workflow systems, case management applications, risk management solutions, or complex internal tools.
- Familiarity with domain-driven design, state machines, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience building reusable platform APIs, SDKs, or integration frameworks, with familiarity in technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, OAuth 2.0, SSO, or RBAC.
- Experience integrating AI-powered applications, LLMs, agents, MCP-compatible tools, or intelligent automation into production systems.
- Familiarity with privacy, security, compliance, governance, or enterprise risk management workflows.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, observability, or large-scale distributed systems.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
We are a core Governance Engineering team within the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, enabling data protection, software assurance, content assurance, and governance efficiency for hundreds of millions of U.S. users.
We build and operate scalable privacy and compliance platforms, governance workflows, systems of record, evidence management, code intelligence, and shared services. Through platform engineering, end-to-end development, Agentic automation, developer-first tooling, and applied research, we turn complex governance requirements into reliable, scalable, and auditable solutions.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to build and evolve GPCP (Global Privacy Compliance Platform), applications and reusable shared services that help Security and Privacy teams put governance requirements into practice across complex systems and workflows.
You’ll work across frontend and backend systems, developing intuitive user experiences, scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and reusable platform components. Depending on your strengths, you may focus more deeply on application development or backend platform capabilities while contributing to end-to-end solutions.
You’ll own features from technical design through production, helping GPCP and its shared foundations become more extensible, reliable, and intelligent.
Responsibilities
- Build GPCP and shared services. Develop scalable full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting compliance workflows, evidence management, and cross-system operations.
- Develop reusable platform capabilities. Build shared APIs, SDKs, UI components, domain models, data contracts, and integration frameworks to accelerate application development and onboarding while leveraging existing systems of record.
- Modernize platform architecture. Simplify dependencies and improve scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability through backward-compatible migrations.
- Enable governance workflows and intelligent automation. Build workflow automation, evidence integrations, and AI-powered tools that improve operational efficiency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Own end-to-end delivery. Translate requirements into technical designs and documentation; implement, test, deploy, monitor, and support production services.
- Champion engineering excellence and security. Apply secure SDLC, authentication and authorization, API security, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability practices.
- Collaborate across teams. Partner with Privacy, Security, Legal, Operations, Product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, extensible solutions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and maintaining production applications or backend services, with proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of API design, service integration, and application architecture.
- Experience with data modeling, relational or NoSQL databases, and data-access patterns.
- Experience developing reliable backend services or complex frontend applications using modern frameworks such as React, with an understanding of API integration and production performance.
- Experience delivering features end to end, including design, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into maintainable technical solutions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building full-stack applications with React, TypeScript, reusable UI components, design systems, or complex data-intensive interfaces.
- Experience building enterprise platforms, workflow systems, case management applications, risk management solutions, or complex internal tools.
- Familiarity with domain-driven design, state machines, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience building reusable platform APIs, SDKs, or integration frameworks, with familiarity in technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, OAuth 2.0, SSO, or RBAC.
- Experience integrating AI-powered applications, LLMs, agents, MCP-compatible tools, or intelligent automation into production systems.
- Familiarity with privacy, security, compliance, governance, or enterprise risk management workflows.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, observability, or large-scale distributed systems.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.