Software Engineer Intern - Data Infra & Search

TikTok; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 51,000 - 73,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Housing allowance (eligible)

Job summary

TikTok invites talented students to join the Search Data Infrastructure team as Software Engineer Intern for Fall 2027 in San Jose. You will work on building and streaming index pipelines, feature engineering platforms, and data pipelines at scale, contributing to real-world systems used by billions of users.

Ideal candidates are pursuing CS degrees, with strong programming skills in Java, C++, or Python and experience with Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C++, or Python.
• Production experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals, and the ability to debug and optimize complex systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and own query/video pipelines — ingestion, enrichment, and streaming/batch index construction at billion-doc scale with near-real-time freshness.
• Develop the feature engineering platform: computation, backfill, storage, and serving, with strong online/offline consistency guarantees.
• Build streaming and batch sample pipelines that turn user actions and features into high-quality training data.
• Improve data quality, observability, and cost efficiency across PB-scale storage and compute.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Spark

Flink

Hive/Iceberg

Job description

TikTok invites talented students to join the Search Data Infrastructure team as Software Engineer Intern for Fall 2027 in San Jose. You will work on building and streaming index pipelines, feature engineering platforms, and data pipelines at scale, contributing to real-world systems used by billions of users.

Ideal candidates are pursuing CS degrees, with strong programming skills in Java, C++, or Python and experience with Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg.