Backend Engineer Intern (Live Streaming Backend) - 2026 Start

Responsibilities

About The Team
Popular video products of TikTok are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. As a software engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle challenges of developing large-scale distributed systems to support the low latency and high quality end to end live streaming experience on a global scale, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026 (Earliest starting in January). Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.

Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain a global-scale, multi-regional live streaming platform.
- Architect, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, live scheduling services, and core persistence layer.
- Construct live streaming platforms, systems, and infrastructure, leveraging knowledge in network and distributed systems.
- Ensure service and system quality through the development of testing frameworks and creation of automated tests.
- Contribute to design reviews and code reviews for the live streaming infrastructure team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
-Undergraduate, or Postgraduate who is currently pursuing a Bachelor/Masters Degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field, expecting to graduate by December 2025.
- Candidates are expected to work on-site at our Sydney office for a minimum of three days per week during the internship, which runs for at least 3 months and may be extended based on performance and mutual agreement.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux operating systems

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL databases, Memcache/Redis
- Experience with video processing and delivery technology

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com