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About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Their mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The TikTok platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community.

Your role

The team is missioned to build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect their users, products and infrastructures. In this team, you will have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. TikTok's challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and they're making a difference.

TikTok is looking for talented individuals to join them in 2023. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Responsibilities:

• Perform penetration tests and security assessments to identify vulnerabilities and business-logic failures in core product ecosystems such as TikTok, CapCut, Lark Suite, and Lemon8
• Design and develop security tooling to identify vulnerabilities and optimise the product security review process
• Perform architecture and design reviews to ensure that their applications are implemented to the highest security and privacy standards, thus maintaining and enhancing user trust
• Work closely with software engineering teams to provide security guidance and co-design complex production systems
• Assess vulnerability impact by creating exploits for n-day vulnerabilities and performing variant analysis across their codebases

Training & development

TikTok provides structured learning to help bring out your best. Throughout the program, they discuss feedback regularly and conduct reviews to ensure that you're meeting your goals and accomplishing more than you imagined. Read more.

Benefits

At TikTok, they believe in taking care of their most valuable asset: their employees. They provide a holistic benefits plan for their employees' work life and health. Benefits vary by country. Read more.

Career progression

TikTok Australia has opportunities in a wide range of business areas. The beginning of your career and their rapid growth is a perfect match - both are just getting started! They offer engineering, marketing, and sales positions, to name a few. Explore opportunities with them and make your inspiration infinite. Read more.

Work life balance

Here are some work-life benefits from TikTok Australia:

1. Vacation & Paid Time Off
2. Paid Holidays
3. Sick Days
4. Bereavement Leave
5. Read more.

Culture & vibe

TikTok is committed to supporting diversity and intersectionality. To celebrate International Women's Month, they hosted a panel of female employees from across the company's Women, LGBTQ+, and Black-focused Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Read more.

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About you

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors
• Hand-on security engineering experiences such as penetration testing, source code review, design review, threat modelling, security mitigation development, or security tooling development
• Solid experience in writing and reviewing code in at least two of the following programming languages: Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript, Go, or Python
• Advanced knowledge and understanding in various disciplines: web application security, mobile app security, network security, operating system internals and hardening, applied cryptography, and cloud computing. You're expected to be an expert in at least one of these areas
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent debugging/troubleshooting skills

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page to submit your application directly to TikTok.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order they apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - TikTok encourages you to apply early.