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Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok- PGC-Digital Content Center) - 2027 Summer

San Jose, United States of America💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design and develop core backend services for TikTok's global copyright protection platform, handling complaint intake, enforcement, and content identification.

Role type

Backend Software Engineer Intern

Builds

Global copyright protection core systems supporting complaint intake, regional routing, human review, and enforcement workflows.

Domain

Internet / Copyright Protection / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, Java, C++, MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, RESTful API design, RPC (Thrift/gRPC), Linux, Shell scripting

Preferred skills

Microservices (Docker/Kubernetes), Message Queues (Kafka/EventBus), Distributed transactions, Event-Driven Architecture, Copyright protection domain knowledge, Machine Learning Engineering concepts

Technologies

Go, MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Kafka, EventBus, Docker, Kubernetes, Thrift, gRPC

Responsibilities

Design and develop core backend services for copyright protection; Implement event-driven architecture pipelines; Optimize databases for billion-scale data volumes; Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and RPC interfaces; Solve distributed consistency challenges in multi-DC architecture; Monitor and optimize system performance; Resolve production environment issues.

Seniority

Intern

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