Site Reliability Engineer Intern; Compute Platform - Summer; BS​/MS

Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Compute Platform) – 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

Location:

Seattle

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code: A20124A

• Responsible for the reliability of all Tik Tok's major data warehouse products, services, and query engines, such as Click House, Spark, Presto, Doris, etc.
• Uphold Service Level Agreements (SLAs): ensure that all service level objectives and agreements from Byte Dance's Data Platform services are met and respond promptly to any system outages or issues.
• Continuous Performance Optimization: analyze service performance and reliability patterns to identify potential performance bottlenecks, implement proactive measures to prevent service disruptions, and work with development teams to optimize application performance.
• Incident Management: lead efforts to troubleshoot and resolve service incidents and postmortems, coordinating with cross‑functional teams to manage and mitigate service‑impacting events.
• Infrastructure Automation: automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management processes to reduce manual interventions and improve service quality.
• Collaboration:
  
  engage with product and development teams to integrate reliability and performance considerations into the software lifecycle.
• Capacity and Demand Planning: assess and forecast infrastructure needs based on growth patterns and upcoming initiatives.
• Stay Updated: keep current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to site reliability and infrastructure engineering.

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026.
• In‑depth understanding of Linux, computer networking, and databases.
• Proficient in common SRE/Dev Ops open‑source toolsets, system monitoring tools, and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Experience or familiarity with open‑source or commercial technologies such as Click House, Hadoop, Doris, Spark, Presto, and Kubernetes.
• Strong coding skills in at least one scripting or programming language, including but not limited to Python, Shell, Java, Go, etc.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to think critically under pressure.
• Strong customer‑first mindset, strong sense of ownership and easy collaboration.

The hourly rate range for this position in Seattle is $42.75–$42.75.

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 the first half of the year, 40 hours if hired in the second half). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for a housing allowance.

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:

• 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;
• Exercising sound judgment.

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