Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Global SRE) - 2027 Summer San Jose Undergraduate​/Master Intern - 2027 Start

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@2026 Tik Tok

Technology

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code:

A58114

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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.

Candidates may apply to a maximum of two positions across Our Company and its affiliates globally. Applications will be considered in the order they are submitted.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early. Please clearly state your availability in your resume, including your start and end dates.

• Own the reliability of Tik Tok’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.

• 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.

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

By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here:

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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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