TikTok
Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Global SRE) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
About the job
Maintain and improve the reliability, availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure efficiency of TikTok’s global advertising systems.
What you'll do
- Design reliability architecture and ensure high availability for large-scale advertising systems.
- Build and optimize disaster recovery solutions, preparedness, and incident response.
- Plan infrastructure capacity and develop reliability tools for monitoring, alerting, SLO management, risk governance, and resource management.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems and IP networking.
- Programming experience in at least one of: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ownership, communication, and collaboration.
Nice to have
- SRE internship experience with large-scale advertising, recommendation, or search systems, or large-scale cloud platforms.
Tools
Unix/Linux, IP networking, Python, Go, C, C++, Java
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