Edge Infrastructure Intern: Build Cloud-Native Systems

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Paid sick time

Job summary

ByteDance's Traffic Infrastructure team is seeking a Campus Intern in San Jose to help design, develop, and operate global edge infrastructure components with mentorship from senior engineers.

You will work on production systems at scale, gain hands-on exposure to cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and networking, and contribute to observability, tooling, and automation while learning best practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems, computer networks).
• Programming experience in Go, C or Rust demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, or open-source contributions.
• Familiarity with Linux and basic understanding of containers, distributed systems, or networking concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a growth mindset, ownership, and eagerness to learn in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, development, and operation of infrastructure components for global edge PoPs (e.g., Kubernetes/control plane, virtualization/containers, Ingress/Gateway), with close guidance from senior engineers, focusing on performance, reliability, and security.
• Participate in the delivery of cloud-native features — from requirements and implementation to testing and rollout — while learning our engineering best practices.
• Help build observability and troubleshooting tooling (metrics/logs/tracing/profiling) and contribute to automation that improves incident response efficiency.

Skills

Go

C

Rust

Linux

Networking

Algorithms

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Ingress/Gateway

Job description

ByteDance's Traffic Infrastructure team is seeking a Campus Intern in San Jose to help design, develop, and operate global edge infrastructure components with mentorship from senior engineers.

You will work on production systems at scale, gain hands-on exposure to cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and networking, and contribute to observability, tooling, and automation while learning best practices in a fast-paced environment.