Backend Engineer Intern, Video-On-Demand

We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As an intern, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok. 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 TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Team Introduction Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a world-leading video platform that provides multi-media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming services. We are building the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live-streaming network, which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. Popular video products of TikTok and its affiliates are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. Responsibilities - Be responsible for the back-end research and development of multimedia audio and video on-demand products, including but not limited to engineering architecture services such as upload, playback, and platform. - Participate in the optimization of audio and video upload and playback experience, cost, etc., and participate in the guarantee of the stability of basic services. - Participate in and promote the platform construction of the team to ensure the rapid development of the business and the efficient iteration of requirements. - Work closely with product managers, client teams, and algorithm teams to provide industry-leading end-to-end multimedia on-demand solutions.

Minimum Qualifications: - Final year student with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields. - Proficient in one or more languages such as C/C++, Go, Python, Java under the Linux environment, with good programming habits and logical implementation capabilities. Preferred Qualifications: - Have a good foundation in the application of networks, storage, and operating systems, and possess good logical and speculative abilities. - Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. - Experience with CDN, Multimedia is a plus. - Be positive and optimistic, have a strong sense of responsibility, and have good team communication and collaboration skills. - Have a strong learning ability, have a strong thirst for knowledge, curiosity and enterprising spirit, and be able to pay attention to and learn the latest technologies in the industry in a timely manner. By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com.