Software Engineer Intern (Data Arch - E-commerce) - 2027 Summer

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TikTok is hiring a Software Engineer Intern to help build and optimize infrastructure for its e-commerce recommendation systems. The role focuses on online services, data pipelines, and high-performance computing and storage systems that support large-scale recommendations.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidates generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc Work with your mentor to build globalized large-scale recommendation system Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems

Qualifications: Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2027 Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Masters degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications Demonstrated experience in one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus

Benefits: Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

Interns participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops alongside industry professionals.