Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Governance Business

About the role

The Product Governance & IPR team at Global E-commerce is responsible for ensuring the authenticity and compliance of listings on the platform, as well as protecting intellectual property rights. This role involves designing and implementing systems for detecting counterfeit, prohibited, and low-quality listings, enforcing product information quality, and meeting regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own solution design and system architecture for product governance and IPR services — listing risk screening, product quality enforcement, policy-driven review pipelines — and write high-quality code for critical paths.
• Design and evolve IP protection systems end-to-end: rights-holder reporting and brand-protection platforms, notice-and-takedown workflows with SLA guarantees, and proactive infringement detection, in close partnership with legal and policy teams.
• Provide technical leadership across the team: drive design reviews, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.
• Shape the team's technical roadmap with a focus on scalability, reliability, and measurable governance outcomes (e.g., violation catch rate, takedown SLA, review efficiency, seller and rights-holder experience).
• Partner closely with product managers, policy/operations/legal teams, and algorithm engineers to turn governance and IP policies into effective, low-friction technical solutions.
• Drive pragmatic adoption of LLM and agent-based capabilities in review and takedown workflows where they measurably improve accuracy, coverage, or efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: leading complex projects end-to-end, driving architecture decisions, or mentoring engineers.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our 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. TikTok's mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy to our communities worldwide.

Why Join Us

We believe that inspiring creativity is at the heart of what we do. Our innovative product helps people authentically express themselves, discover new content, and connect with others. We strive to create value for our users and contribute positively to society. Join us if you share our passion for making a difference through technology.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212,800 - $387,600 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.