TikTok
Data Engineer Intern (E-commerce) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified.
- Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Build and optimize data transformations and scalable big data systems supporting TikTok’s e-commerce products and business.
What you'll do
- Design reliable data transformations for reporting, growth analysis, and multidimensional analysis.
- Design and implement scalable, robust, and extensible big data systems.
- Establish sound system design and engineering practices for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026.
- Experience with Big Data technologies.
- Experience performing data analysis, data ingestion, and data integration.
Nice to have
- Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with ETL and architecting data systems; schema design, data modeling, and SQL queries.
Tools
Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka
AI focus
The team is exploring integration of traditional search engine technologies with Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve TikTok Search; the posting does not specify this intern's direct AI responsibilities.
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