About the team:
The Privacy and Data Protection Office (PDPO) leads, supervises, and empowers all of TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry-leading way.
The team is the in-house expert on the privacy risk landscape and partners across the company to implement the safeguards and technical mitigations that ensure users' privacy is honored across TikTok's products and platforms.
The Offense and Defense team establishes capability to proactively identify, monitor, and mitigate privacy risks across target domains;
build a scalable monitoring system as the second line of defense;
translate risk objectives into detection capabilities to enhance visibility across key privacy risk areas;
and strengthen the technical and data foundation to support reliable monitoring, investigation, and risk-informed decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, construct, test, and maintain robust, fault-tolerant, and scalable data pipelines and data services to support high-throughput analytical workloads.
- Build, optimize, and expand storage solutions, data models, and enterprise data warehouses using modern distributed databases and caching technologies.
- Investigate and integrate up-and-coming big data tools, open-source frameworks, and modern technologies into existing production environments.
- Implement fault-tolerant mechanisms, triage and debug complex data infrastructure issues, and establish operational monitoring to protect system reliability and SLA.
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and software engineering teams to align data platform capabilities with core business goals and deliver seamless integrations with third-party data systems.