Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Global SRE)

About TikTok

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

About the Role

The monetization technology team works on building and running large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. SREs keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, ensuring our users have the best experience possible. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship. Our internship program offers students hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges while building a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. Interns will gain practical experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.

Key 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 continuously 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 & Tech Stack

• Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems, IP networking.
• Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a strong sense of ownership, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Preferred: Experience in SRE internship for large-scale advertising, recommendation, search systems, or large-scale cloud platforms.

Internship Details

• Candidates may apply to a maximum of two positions across Our Company and its affiliates globally.
• Applications will be considered in the order they are submitted and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Please clearly state your availability in your resume, including your start and end dates.
• Hourly rate range: $45 - $60.
• Benefits: Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, 10 paid holidays, and paid sick time.
• Potential eligibility for housing allowance for interns not working 100% remote.