Software Engineer Intern - Data & Search Infrastructure

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is offering an internship with our Search Engineering Team, which builds and owns TikTok's search engine by combining information retrieval with modern ML from NLP, CV, and recommender systems.

Interns will gain hands-on experience by building and owning query/video pipelines, developing the feature engineering platform, and creating data pipelines at scale, while learning to optimize data quality and observability in production environments.

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.

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 Computer Science

Tools

Spark

Flink

Hive/Iceberg

Job description

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is offering an internship with our Search Engineering Team, which builds and owns TikTok's search engine by combining information retrieval with modern ML from NLP, CV, and recommender systems.

Interns will gain hands-on experience by building and owning query/video pipelines, developing the feature engineering platform, and creating data pipelines at scale, while learning to optimize data quality and observability in production environments.