Data Scientist, E-commerce - USDS

About the team

The E-commerce Risk Control and Security team is dedicated to protecting TikTok Shop from fraudulent activities and user abuses, ensuring a trustworthy and user-friendly marketplace for buyers, sellers, and creators. As a global team, we develop and manage foundational platforms including the risk decision engine, enforcement framework, and model & graph platforms. These systems tackle some of the highest throughput challenges across Global E-commerce.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for end-to-end data analysis projects in the e-commerce security field, including collecting, cleaning, and transforming e-commerce security-related data (such as transaction logs, user behavior data, abnormal order data, and fraud records), perceive and identify security risks from it, promote the implementation of data-driven e-commerce security solutions, and have the ability to implement and execute solutions in the production environment.
• Monitor and analyze e-commerce security data trends, including information leakage, malicious crawling of commodity/price data, etc.; identify data anomalies, potential security risks and optimization directions, improve the security of the e-commerce platform, and protect the rights and interests of users and merchants.
• Be responsible for data-based diagnosis of e-commerce security issues, use statistical methods and data mining technologies to conduct root cause analysis on e-commerce security pain points, and provide implementable security solutions to support e-commerce security decision-making.
• Collaborate deeply with e-commerce business teams, product teams, security teams and engineering teams, understand e-commerce security needs, convert them into e-commerce security data analysis tasks, and design and deliver scalable data analysis solutions to solve complex e-commerce security challenges.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Security, Business Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in data analytics, with proficiency in SQL, Python, and relevant analytical tools/languages, and the ability to detect cyber threats and risks by data-driven approaches.
• Excellent capabilities to investigate, identify, and analyze hidden issues from e-commerce business data and security logs.
• Strong business judgment and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with strong cross-team communication skills to achieve results.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced in data science and e-commerce security risk mitigation, such as data security, traffic security, or anti-bot.
• Experienced in e-commerce and retail-related business fields, familiar with e-commerce security risks and data analysis scenarios.
• Demonstrated communication skills to bridge business and technical teams, able to efficiently promote projects from risk detection to solution implementation; good stress resistance and stability.

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.

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 an 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.

Pay

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136,800 - $228,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year.
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

Schedule

This role requires a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.