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TikTok · 1 week ago

Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Compute Platform) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

United States

Internship

Remote

Intern

$45/hr - $45/hr

Start in 2026 Summer

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Intern for the Summer of 2026. The role involves ensuring the reliability of major data warehouse products and services, optimizing performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance service quality.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Responsible for the reliability of all TikTok's major data warehouse products, services, and query engines, such as ClickHouse, Spark, Presto, Doris, etc

Uphold Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensure that all service level objectives and agreements from ByteDance's Data Platform services are met. Respond promptly to any system outages or issues

Continuous Performance Optimization: Analyze service performance and reliability patterns to identify potential performance bottlenecks. Implement proactive measures to prevent service disruptions. Work with development teams to optimize application performance, ensuring that services run efficiently and that resources are utilized effectively

Incident Management: Lead efforts to troubleshoot and resolve service incidents and postmortems. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to manage and mitigate service-impacting events

Infrastructure Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management processes to reduce manual interventions and improve service quality

Collaboration: Engage with product and development teams to integrate reliability and performance considerations into the software lifecycle

Capacity and Demand Planning: Assess and forecast infrastructure needs based on growth patterns and upcoming initiatives

Stay Updated: Keep current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to site reliability and infrastructure engineering

Qualification

LinuxKubernetesDatabasesPythonProblem-solvingCollaborationCustomer-first mindsetCritical thinking

Required

Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026

In-depth understanding of Linux, computer networking, and databases. Proficient in common SRE/DevOps open-source toolsets, system monitoring tools, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

Experience or familiarity with open-source or commercial technologies such as ClickHouse, Hadoop, Doris, Spark, Presto and Kubernetes

Strong coding skills in at least one scripting or programming language, including but not limited to Python, Shell, Java, Go, etc

Preferred

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically under pressure

Strong customer-first mindset. Strong sense of ownership and easy to collaborate with

Graduating December 2026 onwards with the intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship

Benefits

Interns have day one access to health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits and more

Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)

Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

Company

TikTok

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TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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