Traffic Platform Intern: AI-Driven Networking

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance's Technology team in San Jose is seeking an intern to design and develop core traffic software, build data pipelines, and advance API acceleration on a multi-cloud platform.

You will work on performance tuning for real-time traffic, troubleshoot production issues, and explore AI-powered tooling to accelerate development and operations. This internship emphasizes practical systems work and exposure to modern networking stacks.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or related technical field.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C, or C++ with Linux experience.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS.
• Familiar with AI/LLM application development (prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI tools).
• Experience in AI Agent development (LLM-powered agents, tool use, multi-agent systems).
• Experience developing proxy software such as Nginx or Envoy.
• Experience with HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), and TLS 1.3.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core traffic software (L4/L7 load balancers, caching) on our traffic platform to process terabyte-scale data in real time.
• Build data pipelines and telemetry systems that enable data-driven traffic control.
• Develop API acceleration and other networking services on top of our multi-cloud traffic platform.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive performance tuning for online traffic.
• Research emerging technologies to make traffic processing more efficient and scalable.
• Build platform capabilities—control plane, self-service APIs, developer tooling, and supporting infrastructure—that power the Global Traffic Architecture.
• Develop AI-powered engineering productivity tools and agents to accelerate development, diagnosis, and operations across the traffic platform.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

C

C++

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

Nginx

Envoy

Job description

ByteDance's Technology team in San Jose is seeking an intern to design and develop core traffic software, build data pipelines, and advance API acceleration on a multi-cloud platform.

You will work on performance tuning for real-time traffic, troubleshoot production issues, and explore AI-powered tooling to accelerate development and operations. This internship emphasizes practical systems work and exposure to modern networking stacks.