Job Description

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
About The Team
The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated.
With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.
Responsibilities:

• Aggregate public domain data on the Internet to meet various business data needs
• Responsible for the architecture and development of distributed data/content aggregation system, perform full stack optimisation for data crawling, scheduling, analysis and storage
• Overcome various data crawling technical challenges, continuously improve the quality and performance of very large scale data aggregation systems
• B. Sc or higher degree in Computer Science or related fields from accredited and reputable institutions
• 5+ years data mining related experience, including data aggregation and crawling
• Familiar with one of Python/Java/Go/C++ with demonstrable coding ability;
• Familiar with mainstream data crawling technologies and frameworks, such as Selenium/Puppeteer/Scrapy/PhantomJS, etc.;
• Familiarity and practical experience in tackling common anti-crawling methodologies & strategies
• Familiarity and demonstrable expertise in reverse engineering, web security, and data obfuscation, unpacking, analysis and mining is a plus

Ideal Candidate:

• Agile, quick self learner, highly self-motivated with strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver
• Deeply passionate about software coding/development and building great mobile/web applications
• Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment
• Professional level proficiency in written and spoken English

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.