TikTok Looking for Junior Software Development Engineer, Ads QE – San Jose at San Jose, CA Full Time

Ads Quality and Efficiency Technology focuses on end-to-end quality assurance and technology-driven efficiency enhancement across the entire ads ecosystem, including Ad Manager, Delivery System, Review System, Conversion Measurement, and related infrastructure.

Our Mission:

To ensure system reliability, usability, stability, and user satisfaction through:

• Quality Engineering: Comprehensive project testing, automation framework development, and CI/CD pipeline optimization.
• Efficiency Innovation: Intelligent tooling for test execution acceleration, resource optimization, and performance benchmarking.
• Technical Leadership: Proactive identification of system bottlenecks, data-driven decision-making, and scalable solutions for complex ads challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing test tools and platforms to improve test efficiency and testability.
• Execute test frameworks, resources and tools to deliver products with the best quality.
• Introduce new techniques and methods to improve team productivity.
• Work closely with cross-function teams in the early stage of product development lifecycle, to define test strategy and implement test tools.
• Help solving engineering problems and contribute to creative solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ years of work experience in testing and development in the high tech sector.
• Familiar with at least one programming language (Python/Java/Go).
• Solid knowledge of computer field fundamentals for networking, database and algorithms.
• Familiar with server-side automation testing/UI-automation testing, server-side stress testing.
• Experienced in quality assurance methodology and have certain understanding of CI/CD.
• Passionate, self-motivated and can demonstrate excellent teamwork skills. Self-driven at discovering, analyzing and summarizing problems to promote continuous improvement of projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science or related major is preferred.
• Experience in change management, asset loss prevention, and client performance testing is preferred.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118000 – $177000 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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok’s 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.

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 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. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request