Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Global SRE) - 2027 Summer

Responsibilities

The monetization technology team works on building and running large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. SREs keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, ensuring our users have the best experience possible.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. Our internship program offers students hands‑on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply their knowledge to real‑world challenges while building a strong foundation for personal and professional growth.

Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.

• Own the reliability of TikTok’s global advertising systems, participate in the design of reliability architecture, and ensure high availability of large-scale advertising systems.
• Design, implement, validate, and continuously optimize global disaster recovery (DR) solutions for the advertising systems, and lead disaster recovery preparedness and incident response.
• Manage and plan infrastructure capacity for the advertising systems, ensuring resources scale efficiently with business growth while continuously improving infrastructure utilization through performance optimization.
• Develop reliability platforms and engineering tools for the advertising systems, including monitoring, alerting, SLO management, risk governance, and resource management.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems, IP networking.
• Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a strong sense of ownership, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SRE internship for large-scale advertising, recommendation, search systems, or large-scale cloud platforms.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45- $60.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and 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.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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

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