CDN Platform Engineer Intern: Multi-Cloud Traffic Optimizer

Bytedance; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 17,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance’s Global Engineering CDN team seeks interns to learn and contribute to a highly available, cost-efficient, multi-cloud CDN platform. You will assist in traffic scheduling, analytics, and tooling, gaining hands-on experience in large-scale distributed systems under mentorship.

This internship emphasizes practical engineering challenges, data-driven analysis, and opportunity to explore potential career paths within ByteDance’s global infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related discipline.
• Familiar with at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
• Basic understanding of data structures, operating systems, computer networks, or databases.
• Interested in networking, traffic systems, cloud infrastructure, data analysis, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong learning ability, analytical thinking, and willingness to solve practical engineering problems.
• Preferred: course projects, research projects, internships, or open-source experience related to backend development, networking, data analysis, or infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Linux, SQL, HTTP, DNS, Python-based analysis, or basic visualization tools is a plus.
• Experience building scripts, dashboards, small tools, or analysis projects is a plus.
• Good communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and analysis of CDN traffic scheduling and optimization systems.
• Help build metrics, dashboards, scripts, or analysis tools for traffic distribution, cache efficiency, origin traffic, resource usage, and cost optimization.
• Participate in data-driven analysis of CDN traffic patterns and operational efficiency.
• Support monitoring and optimization work for scheduling stability and traffic efficiency.
• Work with mentors to understand global traffic management, CDN scheduling, and multi-cloud optimization.

Skills

Strong learning ability

Analytical thinking

Willingness to solve practical eng,pro

Good communication skills

Collaborative mindset

Education

Master's in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Python

Go

Java

C/C++

Linux

SQL

HTTP

DNS

Job description

ByteDance’s Global Engineering CDN team seeks interns to learn and contribute to a highly available, cost-efficient, multi-cloud CDN platform. You will assist in traffic scheduling, analytics, and tooling, gaining hands-on experience in large-scale distributed systems under mentorship.

This internship emphasizes practical engineering challenges, data-driven analysis, and opportunity to explore potential career paths within ByteDance’s global infrastructure.