Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Governance Business

TikTok
Seattle
Full timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Project leadership","Mentoring","Stakeholder collaboration"]

Build backend systems for product governance and IP protection across Global E-commerce. Own solution design and architecture for listing risk screening, product quality enforcement, and policy-driven review pipelines. Evolve end-to-end notice-and-takedown workflows with SLA guarantees, proactive infringement detection, and rights-holder tooling. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner with product, policy/operations/legal, and algorithm teams to deliver scalable, reliable governance outcomes, including pragmatic LLM/agent-based capabilities.

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TikTok
TikTok
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Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-commerce Governance Business

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Job Summary

Build backend systems for product governance and IP protection across Global E-commerce. Own solution design and architecture for listing risk screening, product quality enforcement, and policy-driven review pipelines. Evolve end-to-end notice-and-takedown workflows with SLA guarantees, proactive infringement detection, and rights-holder tooling. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner with product, policy/operations/legal, and algorithm teams to deliver scalable, reliable governance outcomes, including pragmatic LLM/agent-based capabilities.
Location: Seattle
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own solution design and system architecture for product governance and IPR services, including listing risk screening and policy-driven review pipelines.
  • •Design and evolve IP protection systems end-to-end, including rights-holder reporting and brand-protection platforms.
  • •Build and improve notice-and-takedown workflows with SLA guarantees and proactive infringement detection.
  • •Provide technical leadership through design reviews, setting engineering standards, and mentoring engineers.
  • •Partner with product, policy/operations/legal, and algorithm teams to turn governance and IP policies into low-friction technical solutions and advance LLM/agent-based capabilities.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • •5+ years building highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
  • •Demonstrated technical leadership through leading complex projects, driving architecture decisions, or mentoring engineers.
  • •Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • •Experience in e-commerce/marketplace listing or catalog systems, plus IP/trust & safety and notice-and-takedown familiarity (e.g., DMCA) is preferred.
Experience:5+ yearsE-commerceMarketplaceTrust & safetyIP protectionBrand protection
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationProject leadershipMentoringStakeholder collaboration
Tech Stack:LLM-based reviewLLMAgent-basedMachine learningRule engines

Company Brief

TikTok
Short-form video platform that lets users create, share, and discover entertainment content through algorithmic recommendations. It also offers advertising and creator tools for brands, influencers, and businesses.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2016
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