TikTok
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok Search Data Infra) - 2027 Fall
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Build and improve TikTok Search data infrastructure for ingesting, indexing, serving features, and producing training data at large scale.
What you'll do
- Build query/video ingestion, enrichment, and streaming or batch index-construction pipelines.
- Develop feature engineering and training-data pipelines with online/offline consistency.
- Improve data quality, observability, and cost efficiency across storage and compute.
What they ask for
- 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 ability to debug and optimize complex systems in production.
Nice to have
- Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with search, recommendation, or ads data infrastructure; feature stores and training sample pipelines; real-time indexing, inverted index, or embedding/vector retrieval pipelines; or AI coding assistants and agents.
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Spark, Flink, Hive/Iceberg
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