Software Engineer Intern (Transaction Platform) - 2027 Summer San Jose Undergraduate​/Master Int

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@2026 Tik Tok

Technology

San Jose

Intern

A92466

Our team is responsible for providing a suite of capabilities to support Tik Tok's advertising operations, including advertising billing, fund account management, fund marketing, fund settlement, and budget control. These capabilities aim to ensure the accuracy and security of advertisers' funds, enhance the efficiency of fund utilization for advertisers, and meet financial compliance requirements. In this team, you will see a direct link between your work, and the company's business success.

Meanwhile, you have the opportunity to develop and manage the real-time‑charges system for billing events at a scale of billions while simultaneously ensuring billing accuracy and a very high level of stability for the system. 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.

• Responsible for designing and developing applications related to Tik Tok's monetization capital business, which includes advertising billing, fund account management, fund marketing, fund settlement, and budget control.
• Contribute to resolving stability challenges encountered by the platform, including high concurrency, system scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Continuously optimize the system so that it can evolve rapidly with business needs and support business development.

• Currently pursuing a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors.
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Possessing a strong coding and documentation style.
• Familiar with common components such as MySQL, Redis, Flink, Elastic Search, Kafka, and RPC.
• Hands‑on experience in software development, particularly with Java.
• Good at communication, sensitive to business, able to quickly understand the business background, and have an excellent ability to integrate technology and business.
• Must be able to commit to a 12‑week full‑time work period during Summer 2027.

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:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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