Cybersecurity Engineer Project Intern (TikTok Shop) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 13,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

TikTok Shop is seeking a project intern in Singapore to join the security threat analysis team. You will gain practical experience through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced environment and contribute to analyzing incidents, defending e-commerce platforms, and supporting security governance.

The internship covers traceability analysis, data tagging, and investigation of black and gray market activities, with on-going assessments and rolling applications.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Infocomm Security, CS, CE, or related field.
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to support security log analysis and SQL.
• Experience coding with Python or Spark.
• Solid CS and network security foundation with cyber-attack awareness.

Responsibilities

• Conduct traceability analysis on e-commerce security incident cases using logs and traffic data.
• Develop and optimise data tables for API assets and tag data per governance.
• Explore black market chains and security intelligence tools with engineers.
• Track cyber attacks, perform reverse analysis, and identify weak defense points.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Python

Cyber security basics

Communication

Education

Infocomm Security

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Business Analytics

Tools

Python

Spark

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team TikTok Shop is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. TikTok Shop business team hopes to provide users with more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, thereby making more affordable and high-quality products easily accessible and improving lives.

Our team is responsible for security threat analysis for TikTok Shop and the development of corresponding technical solutions. Our core focus areas include information leakage analysis, anti-scraping detection, device and account security analysis, traffic security analysis (including WAF), data profiling, and the construction of general security awareness capabilities. We work closely with business stakeholders, engineers, and blue team partners to help ensure a secure and trusted shopping environment for e-commerce users.

As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

• we encourage you to apply early.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period. Candidates who pass resume screening will be invited to participate in TikTok's technical online assessment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct traceability analysis on e-commerce security incident cases based on system logs, traffic data, intelligence data, etc., and summarise attack methods.


• Develop and optimise data tables for e-commerce API assets with our engineers, support data tagging according to security governance requirements.


• Explore the black industry chain in key business scenarios, security intelligence collection tools, and investigate the operation, profit models, and scale trends of black and gray industry chains with our engineers.


• Track cyber attacks, perform reverse analysis of black-industry tools and cheating malware, restore attack methods and attack paths, and identify weak points in security defense.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate, or Postgraduate who is currently pursuing a degree/master in Infocomm Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Analytics or a related technical discipline.


• Good data analysis skills and experience to support security log analysis/mining, and strategy development (e.g., SQL).


• Coding experience with general purpose development tools (e.g. Python, Spark).


• Solid foundation in computer science and network security, with an understanding of common cyber attacks and defense countermeasures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good communication skills to support cross-team collaborations, enthusiastic about learning new technologies and tackling challenging problems in a fast-paced work environment.


• Familiar with internet business risk scenarios, common black and gray industry chain operations, and cheating techniques.

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