Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Global SRE) - 2027 Summer

About the role

The monetization technology team builds and operates large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. As an SRE intern, you will help maintain the highest level of availability for these systems, ensuring users have the best experience possible. This internship offers hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to tackle real-world challenges while building a foundation for personal and professional growth. Interns will gain practical experience, explore career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of TikTok’s global advertising systems, participate in the design of reliability architecture, and ensure high availability of large-scale advertising systems.
• Design, implement, validate, and continuously optimize global disaster recovery (DR) solutions for the advertising systems, and lead disaster recovery preparedness and incident response.
• Manage and plan infrastructure capacity for the advertising systems, ensuring resources scale efficiently with business growth while improving infrastructure utilization through performance optimization.
• Develop reliability platforms and engineering tools for the advertising systems, including monitoring, alerting, SLO management, risk governance, and resource management.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems and IP networking.
• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a sense of ownership, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an SRE internship for large-scale advertising, recommendation, search systems, or large-scale cloud platforms.

Pay

The hourly rate range for this position is $45–$60.

Benefits

• Day-one access to health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half).
• Eligibility for housing allowance if not working 100% remote.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. With global headquarters in Los Angeles and Singapore, we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

We create value for our communities, inspire creativity, and bring joy through our innovative product. Our global, diverse teams work with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an impact. We embrace challenges, iterate constantly, and foster an "Always Day 1" mindset to achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users.