Backend Software Engineer Graduate (Machine Moderation Platform) - 2027 Start
- Location
- Seattle, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $121,600 – $243,200 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k at an employer this size in Seattle. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: an early-career or graduate seat · posts $122k to $243k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Builds the backend platforms behind TikTok's trust and safety operations, including content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, moderation platforms, data platforms and risk insight systems used across the TnS organization. The team's stated goal is protecting users from harmful content and abusive behavior.
What you'd do
- Help design the overall architecture of the TnS data application platforms and lead the team implementing those specifications.
- Optimize existing data application architecture to improve stability and efficiency and cut storage, compute and service complexity and cost.
- Design and build systematic support for data integration, offline and real-time development, data governance and BI analysis.
- Mentor teammates and earn influence beyond the department so the team's engineering ability grows.
What it asks for
- Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's or higher in computer science or a related field.
- Software development experience in at least one of C++, Python or Java.
- Proficiency with distributed, high-concurrency server stacks such as RPC, message queues, link tracing and service governance.
- Experience with big data systems such as Spark, Flink, ClickHouse or HBase.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience with data insight work such as machine learning or statistical analysis (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Graduate role with an onboarding date required by the end of the year.
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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