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Customer Solutions Engineer jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with technical degrees in computer science, engineering, or information systems. Most roles qualify as STEM OPT extensions, giving you up to 36 months of work authorization. Employers in this space regularly sponsor H-1B visas for high performers.
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About The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands.
About the team
This Customer Solutions Engineer will be responsible for partnering with external clients such as ISVs and merchants, to better improve their experience in working with TikTok Shop. They will be responsible for understanding the TikTok Shop platform ecosystem, and continue to design integration solutions for varying business scenarios.
- Gain deep understanding of TikTok Shop API capabilities and the platform ecosystem, and design integration solutions tailored to various business scenarios.
- Collaborate with key merchants, ISVs, and partner technical teams to guide them through API integration implementation and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain standardized solution architectures, reference designs, and best practice documentation, and drive adoption internally and externally.
- Evaluate integration feasibility for new product features, providing optimization recommendations to align platform capabilities with market needs.
- Partner with product, engineering, and ecosystem teams to gather feedback, address integration challenges, and support API capability iterations.
- Provide technical consultation during pre-sales and post-sales phases, including solution review, technical troubleshooting, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Advocate TikTok Shop API integration solutions through industry events, partner training, and developer community engagement to drive adoption.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in technical solution design, solution engineering, or pre-sales engineering, preferably in e-commerce platforms or SaaS products.
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and debugging, with solid understanding of data structures and system architecture.
- Experience integrating with e-commerce, ERP, OMS, PIM, or WMS systems is a strong plus.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and client communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Fast learner with the ability to adapt to new technologies and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Love content and enjoy shopping.
- Experience in e-commerce merchandising platforms, seller onboarding tools, or buyer-seller matchmaking systems.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $109440 - $209380 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.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
About The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands.
About the team
This Customer Solutions Engineer will be responsible for partnering with external clients such as ISVs and merchants, to better improve their experience in working with TikTok Shop. They will be responsible for understanding the TikTok Shop platform ecosystem, and continue to design integration solutions for varying business scenarios.
- Gain deep understanding of TikTok Shop API capabilities and the platform ecosystem, and design integration solutions tailored to various business scenarios.
- Collaborate with key merchants, ISVs, and partner technical teams to guide them through API integration implementation and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain standardized solution architectures, reference designs, and best practice documentation, and drive adoption internally and externally.
- Evaluate integration feasibility for new product features, providing optimization recommendations to align platform capabilities with market needs.
- Partner with product, engineering, and ecosystem teams to gather feedback, address integration challenges, and support API capability iterations.
- Provide technical consultation during pre-sales and post-sales phases, including solution review, technical troubleshooting, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Advocate TikTok Shop API integration solutions through industry events, partner training, and developer community engagement to drive adoption.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in technical solution design, solution engineering, or pre-sales engineering, preferably in e-commerce platforms or SaaS products.
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and debugging, with solid understanding of data structures and system architecture.
- Experience integrating with e-commerce, ERP, OMS, PIM, or WMS systems is a strong plus.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and client communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Fast learner with the ability to adapt to new technologies and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Love content and enjoy shopping.
- Experience in e-commerce merchandising platforms, seller onboarding tools, or buyer-seller matchmaking systems.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $109440 - $209380 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.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Customer Solutions Engineer
Lead with both technical and communication skills
Customer Solutions Engineers sit at the intersection of product knowledge and client-facing work. Highlight hands-on experience with APIs, integrations, or technical demos alongside any client communication, presentations, or customer-facing projects from internships or coursework.
Target companies with established OPT and H-1B track records
SaaS companies and enterprise software firms sponsor work visas far more consistently than early-stage startups. On Migrate Mate, you can filter specifically for employers who have sponsored F-1 OPT students and filed H-1B petitions in previous years.
Confirm your degree qualifies for STEM OPT before applying
Most Customer Solutions Engineer roles qualify under STEM OPT if your degree is in computer science, engineering, or information systems. Verify your CIP code with your DSO before accepting an offer to confirm your 24-month extension eligibility.
Address OPT proactively, not defensively
Bring up your authorization status before offer-stage conversations, not after. A short, clear explanation that you have 12 months of OPT remaining with a STEM extension available removes ambiguity and signals that you understand the process.
Build a technical portfolio that demonstrates customer impact
Solutions Engineers are evaluated on their ability to solve real customer problems. Document projects where you diagnosed a technical issue, built a proof-of-concept, or guided a non-technical user through a complex product. Specificity matters far more than volume.
Ask about the H-1B sponsorship timeline during interviews
The H-1B lottery runs once a year with an April filing deadline. Ask hiring managers whether they have a formal sponsorship policy and whether prior Solutions Engineer hires have been sponsored. This tells you whether visa support is routine or case-by-case.
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Does a Customer Solutions Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Most Customer Solutions Engineer positions qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension if your degree is in a STEM field such as computer science, electrical engineering, or information systems. The role must be directly related to your degree and meet USCIS standards for a bona fide employer-employee relationship, including a formal training plan on Form I-983.
How do I find Customer Solutions Engineer jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters Customer Solutions Engineer roles by employers with verified OPT and H-1B sponsorship histories. General job boards don't surface this information, which makes it difficult to tell which postings are actually open to candidates who need work authorization support.
Do Customer Solutions Engineer employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas after OPT?
Yes. SaaS companies, cloud platforms, and enterprise software firms regularly sponsor H-1B visas for Solutions Engineers because the role requires specialized technical knowledge that is difficult to replace. H-1B sponsorship is not guaranteed, so ask directly during the interview process whether the company has a formal policy for sponsoring this role.
Can I work as a Customer Solutions Engineer on day-one CPT or before my OPT starts?
CPT requires that the work is integral to your academic program and is authorized by your DSO before you begin. If your program allows CPT for industry roles like Solutions Engineering, you can start before OPT. However, 12 or more months of full-time CPT eliminates your OPT eligibility entirely, so consult your DSO before using CPT for a long-term placement.
What happens to my OPT if I lose my Customer Solutions Engineer job?
F-1 students on OPT have a 90-day unemployment limit for standard OPT and 150 days total across the full STEM OPT period. If you lose your position, you must report the change to your DSO and update your SEVIS record. Finding a new qualifying role quickly is critical. Migrate Mate lets you filter for OPT-friendly openings so you can move fast.
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