Realtime Graph Backend Intern

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 73,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

10 paid holidays per year

Job summary

TikTok's Social Foundation internship offers hands-on experience in building large-scale graph infrastructure powering social features at global scale. You will contribute to real-time graph queries, mining, and integration with core systems like recommendations and risk control.

Join a team shaping real-time relationships insights and product strategies, while gaining exposure to industry professionals and development workshops during the 12-week summer program.

Qualifications

• Pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree in software development or related field.
• Available to work 12 weeks in Summer 2027.
• Proficient in Go, Java, C++, or Python.
• Strong understanding of architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance data storage and management systems for trillion-scale social graph data, ensuring seamless integration and rapid iteration for mission-critical applications.
• Develop distributed graph database engines capable of handling billions of vertices and trillions of edges, enabling millisecond-level multi-hop queries and real-time graph reasoning.
• Build a real-time graph mining platform to extract social relationships, patterns, clusters, and communities, fueling product strategies and personalized recommendations.
• Lead the integration of the Social Graph with core systems (e.g., recommendation, search, risk control) to support social interactions, live-streaming, and various TikTok business use cases.

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

TikTok's Social Foundation internship offers hands-on experience in building large-scale graph infrastructure powering social features at global scale. You will contribute to real-time graph queries, mining, and integration with core systems like recommendations and risk control.

Join a team shaping real-time relationships insights and product strategies, while gaining exposure to industry professionals and development workshops during the 12-week summer program.