Software Engineer — Governance Platform & Enablement

About this role

Responsibilities
We are a core Governance Engineering team within the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, enabling data protection, software assurance, content assurance, and governance efficiency for hundreds of millions of U.S. users.


We build and operate scalable privacy and compliance platforms, governance workflows, systems of record, evidence management, code intelligence, and shared services. Through platform engineering, end-to-end development, Agentic automation, developer-first tooling, and applied research, we turn complex governance requirements into reliable, scalable, and auditable solutions.


We’re looking for a Software Engineer to build and evolve GPCP (Global Privacy Compliance Platform), applications and reusable shared services that help Security and Privacy teams put governance requirements into practice across complex systems and workflows.


You’ll work across frontend and backend systems, developing intuitive user experiences, scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and reusable platform components. Depending on your strengths, you may focus more deeply on application development or backend platform capabilities while contributing to end-to-end solutions.


You’ll own features from technical design through production, helping GPCP and its shared foundations become more extensible, reliable, and intelligent.


Responsibilities

- Build GPCP and shared services. Develop scalable full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting compliance workflows, evidence management, and cross-system operations.

- Develop reusable platform capabilities. Build shared APIs, SDKs, UI components, domain models, data contracts, and integration frameworks to accelerate application development and onboarding while leveraging existing systems of record.

- Modernize platform architecture. Simplify dependencies and improve scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability through backward-compatible ...