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ByteDance · 2 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer Project Intern (Security Engineering) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

San Jose, CA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$45/hr - $60/hr

Start in 2026

ByteDance is a company dedicated to inspiring creativity and enriching life through innovative products. The Site Reliability Engineer Project Intern will engage in impactful short-term projects within the security engineering team, ensuring the reliable operation of security infrastructure and developing automation platforms for security systems.

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Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Ensure reliable operation of ultra-large-scale security infrastructure meeting strict SLAs

Design and develop automation platforms for security core systems, enhancing observability for rapid fault detection

Optimize service reliability, scalability, and performance through systematic improvements

Build automated solutions supporting rapid iteration of large-scale production clusters

Participate in OnCall rotation and collaborate with R&D teams on incident resolution

Qualification

Programming in Go/Python/ShellLinux systems expertiseCloud-native architecturesDevOps components understandingPublic cloud operationsCybersecurity product expertiseDevelopment experienceBig data stack operationsTeam collaboration skillsOwnership mentality

Required

Undergraduate, or Postgraduate who is currently pursuing a degree/master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other STEM disciplines

Programming skills in Go/Python/Shell or equivalent

Proficient in Linux systems with networking/storage architecture expertise

Practical experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, containerization)

Understanding of DevOps components: Infrastructure (Load Balancers, Nginx) Automation (Ansible, Argo CD) Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)

Preferred

Strong team collaboration skills with ownership mentality

Experience with public cloud infrastructure operations (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Cybersecurity product expertise: Anti-DDoS/WAF/HIDS systems

Development experience for large-scale O&M platforms/tools

Big data stack operations: Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Spark, Flink

Benefits

Interns have 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

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ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.

Founded in 2012

Beijing, Beijing, CHN

10001+ employees

http://bytedance.com

H1B Sponsorship

ByteDance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1350)

2024 (1123)

2023 (775)

2022 (487)

2021 (417)

2020 (245)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$9.8B

Key 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

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