Site Reliability Engineer Intern (CDN Platform)- 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

Team Introduction The TIGE (Traffic Infrastructure Global Engineering) team serves as the world's premier edge cloud computing and CDN service, offering enterprise users with Content Delivery Network, Edge AI, Edge Security, Edge Computing services, and Traffic Platform services. Our team is responsible for developing and managing edge cloud, CDN and traffic technologies to support billion users and ensure performance, compliance, security and cost efficiency. In line with our commitment to excellence, we are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025. Internships at Bytedance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Turn your ambitions into reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at Bytedance. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. Internships at ByteDance aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at ByteDance. Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with hands-on experience in developing fundamental skills and exploring potential career paths. A vibrant blend of social events and enriching development workshops will be available for you to explore. Here, you will utilize your knowledge in real-world scenarios while laying a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. It runs for 12 weeks. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date). Summer Start Dates: - May 11th, 2026 - May 18th, 2026 - May 26th, 2026 - June 8th, 2026 - June 22nd, 2026 Online Assessment Candidates who pass resume screening will be invited to participate in ByteDance's technical online assessment. Responsibilities - Researching and developing advanced algorithms or systems to enhance ByteDance's overseas infrastructure platform in reliability, performance, efficiency, resource allocation, and feature capability. - Working with our platform development teams to enrich the maturity of our content delivery system in order to support the rapid growth of ByteDance's products, e.g. TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, etc. - Proposing and developing advanced and practical solutions to enhance our focused metrics like cost efficiency, traffic optimization, virtualization performance, as well as other more comprehensive metrics, like availability or stability, and resource efficiency. - Collaborate with a team and lead the full lifecycle of project development, including industry cutting-edge technology trend investigation, solution design, implementation, and validation.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Currently pursuing an advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields. - Strong independent thinking, problem solving capability. - Experience with programming languages like Golang, Python, Java, C/C++, or similar. - Knowledge of algorithms and software development. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications - Background in networking, load balancing, distributed systems or large scale dynamic systems. - Knowledge of performance metrics, data/cost modeling and real-time systems. - System virtualization in VM, container, or networking. - Experience with kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. - AI platform, AI workload engine, or AI specific infrastructure. -Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer or Fall 2026. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/legal/privacy

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45- $45.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.