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About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video.
About USDS
U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a standalone entity of TikTok in the U.S. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and user data in the U.S.
About the Role
TikTok Offensive Security Operation team is seeking a Technical Security Controls Validation specialist. This role is highly technical and solution focused. The individual contributor (IC) will utilize their deep knowledge and skills in offensive and defensive disciplines to assess risks and the effectiveness of protective, detective, and responsive security controls against adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within the TikTok USDS environment. This requires an IC who can work cross-functionally with security monitoring and response teams, administrators, users, and leadership to help them understand the risks and recommend actionable solutions.
To succeed in this role, the candidate must have strong skills in penetration testing or red teaming as well as a deep understanding of threat detection and incident response, threat detection engineering, and/or DevSecOps. The candidate should possess breadth and depth of knowledge in secure coding principles, security architecture, hardening of operating systems, identity and access management, networking protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, threat hunting, forensics, scripting and programming.
Responsibilities:
- Execute offensive test cases against controls in the environment: 1) Determine if the control presents risk to the environment, 2) determine its effectiveness against offensive test cases, and 3) provide reasonable and actionable recommendations to resolve risks and improve the controls effectiveness.
- Perform threat modeling against systems and controls to understand underlying architecture and focus on risky areas, develop security testing requirements and use-cases, identify potential threats/vulnerabilities/misconfigurations, quantify criticality to help prioritize and plan for remediation methods etc
D&I Statement
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Visit the full job posting for more information.
Accommodation Statement
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
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Job Information【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118800 - $196000 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. At ByteDance/TikTok our benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support ByteDancers to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees: We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off(PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability. We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.