Software Engineer Intern – Data & Search Infra

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Job summary

TikTok is offering an internship on the Search Engineering team. You will build and own query/video pipelines at massive scale, develop a feature engineering platform, and create data pipelines turning actions into training data.

This hands-on role emphasizes learning and real-world impact in a fast-paced data infrastructure setting. Qualifications include pursuing a CS degree and strong Java/C++/Python skills, with experience in 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

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree in CS or related (preferred)

Tools

Spark

Flink

Hive/Iceberg

Job description

TikTok is offering an internship on the Search Engineering team. You will build and own query/video pipelines at massive scale, develop a feature engineering platform, and create data pipelines turning actions into training data.

This hands-on role emphasizes learning and real-world impact in a fast-paced data infrastructure setting. Qualifications include pursuing a CS degree and strong Java/C++/Python skills, with experience in Spark, Flink, or Hive/Iceberg.