Software Engineer Intern, Search Data Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

10 paid holidays per year

Housing allowance

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Software Engineer Intern (TikTok Search Data Infra) for the 2027 Summer in San Jose. You will contribute to the Search Engineering Team that powers TikTok’s search with scalable data ingestion, indexing, and machine-learned features.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Java, C++, or Python, plus Spark/Flink/Hive/Iceberg, in a production environment, with opportunities to impact data quality, observability, and efficiency.

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 Computer Science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Spark

Flink

Hive

Iceberg

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Software Engineer Intern (TikTok Search Data Infra) for the 2027 Summer in San Jose. You will contribute to the Search Engineering Team that powers TikTok’s search with scalable data ingestion, indexing, and machine-learned features.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Java, C++, or Python, plus Spark/Flink/Hive/Iceberg, in a production environment, with opportunities to impact data quality, observability, and efficiency.