Senior Platform R&D Engineer

4 hours ago

singapore sg ByteDance Full-time

Senior Platform R&D Engineer - Recommendation System (ByteDance Singapore)

Team: Technology

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A226681A

Responsibilities

  • Design intelligent development toolkits for large-scale recommendation systems, providing tooling and productized solutions to enhance R&D efficiency.
  • Develop business metrics-driven gray release systems to ensure safe, stable, and efficient release strategies and workflows.
  • Enhance observability of recommendation systems in complex global environments (multi-region, multi-data center, multi-language), establish end-to-end tracing systems, and optimise issue attribution mechanisms.
  • Build algorithm engineering toolchains to accelerate the end-to-end process from experimental algorithm/model development to deployment, improving iteration efficiency.
  • Overhaul platform ecosystem architectures and develop data intelligence assistants.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, with 3+ years of experience in designing and developing large-scale systems.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go/Python/C++) and solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Ability to independently lead the technical design and implementation of complex systems and components.
  • Strong product sense, with the ability to balance priorities across requirements, technical solutions, timelines, and delivery quality.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), familiarity with LLM principles and applications, and hands‑on experience in Agent system design.
  • Experience in recommendation/advertising/search systems, or privacy compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA).

About ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With more than a dozen products including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua.