Global Video SRE Intern - Build Reliable, Scalable Infra

TikTok; Sydney; On-site; AUD 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking talented individuals to join our Video and Edge Global Engineering team for an internship in January 2027. You will work on building a robust multimedia transport and processing platform, contributing to global infrastructure, monitoring, automation, and lifecycle improvements across a worldwide user base.

The role offers hands-on industry exposure, with responsibilities spanning design through deployment, aimed at enhancing performance and reliability of our video on demand

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Programming experience in C/C++, Java, Python, or Go.
• Knowledge of networking, OS, database systems and container technology.
• Understanding of microservice architecture and troubleshooting in large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build global infrastructure for multi-media transport, storage and process, to serve billions of users all over the world.
• Engage in global production system management such as monitoring, on-call emergency response, capacity planning and optimization
• Build tools, automations, observability and monitoring to facilitate the operation and optimisation of the global infrastructure.
• Engage in and improve the whole service lifecycle, from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Scale up systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and initiate changes that improve system reliability and processing speed.

Skills

C/C++

Java

Python

Go

Networking

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Linux

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

ELK

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

TikTok is seeking talented individuals to join our Video and Edge Global Engineering team for an internship in January 2027. You will work on building a robust multimedia transport and processing platform, contributing to global infrastructure, monitoring, automation, and lifecycle improvements across a worldwide user base.

The role offers hands-on industry exposure, with responsibilities spanning design through deployment, aimed at enhancing performance and reliability of our video on demand