TikTok
Software Engineer Intern (TikTok Search Data Infra) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- 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 computation, backfill, storage, and serving platforms with online/offline consistency.
- Build training-sample pipelines and improve data quality, observability, and cost efficiency.
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
- Experience with search, recommendation, or ads data infrastructure; feature stores and training-sample pipelines; or real-time indexing and retrieval pipelines.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and agents to improve day-to-day development productivity.
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Spark, Flink, Hive/Iceberg
AI focus
Experience using AI coding assistants and agents to improve day-to-day development productivity is preferred.
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