About the role#
The monetization technology team builds and runs globally distributed, fault-tolerant advertising systems. As a Site Reliability Engineer Intern, you will focus on maintaining these systems to ensure high availability. You will work alongside industry professionals to gain practical experience with large-scale infrastructure.
What you'll do#
- Own the reliability of global advertising systems and participate in architecture design.
- Design, implement, and optimize disaster recovery solutions while leading incident response.
- Manage infrastructure capacity to ensure resources scale with business growth.
- Improve infrastructure utilization through performance tuning.
- Build engineering tools for monitoring, alerting, SLO management, and resource governance.
What you'll need#
- Current pursuit of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems and IP networking.
- Programming experience in Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership.
- Clear communication and collaboration abilities.
- Preferred: Prior SRE internship experience with large-scale cloud platforms, search, recommendation, or advertising systems.
Location & details#
- Location: San Jose, California, United States.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: $45 - $60 per hour.
About TikTok
TikTok operates as an entertainment provider. The company maintains a global presence with offices in cities including Los Angeles, Singapore, New York, London, and Tokyo. It employs over 92,000 people. The organization is privately held.
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