ByteDance · 1 week ago
Site Reliability Engineer Intern (CDN Platform)- 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$45/hr - $45/hr
Start in 2026 SummerByteDance is a leading technology company known for its innovative products like TikTok and CapCut. They are seeking an intern for the TIGE team to support the development and management of edge cloud and CDN technologies, enhancing performance and efficiency for their platforms.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Researching and developing advanced algorithms or systems to enhance ByteDance's overseas infrastructure platform in reliability, performance, efficiency, resource allocation, and feature capability
Working with our platform development teams to enrich the maturity of our content delivery system in order to support the rapid growth of ByteDance's products, e.g. TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, etc
Proposing and developing advanced and practical solutions to enhance our focused metrics like cost efficiency, traffic optimization, virtualization performance, as well as other more comprehensive metrics, like availability or stability, and resource efficiency
Collaborate with a team and lead the full lifecycle of project development, including industry cutting-edge technology trend investigation, solution design, implementation, and validation
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing an advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
Strong independent thinking, problem solving capability
Experience with programming languages like Golang, Python, Java, C/C++, or similar
Knowledge of algorithms and software development
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred
Background in networking, load balancing, distributed systems or large scale dynamic systems
Knowledge of performance metrics, data/cost modeling and real-time systems
System virtualization in VM, container, or networking
Experience with kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
AI platform, AI workload engine, or AI specific infrastructure
Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer or Fall 2026
Benefits
Day one access to health insurance
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
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)
Housing allowance
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Tiger Global Management
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
2024-07-25Secondary Market
2023-03-14Secondary Market· $100M
Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
Recent News
2026-01-08
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