Site Reliability Engineer Graduate (Video & Edge Global Engineering) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026 (Earliest starting in January). As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

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.

About the Team
The Video and Edge Global Engineering team is responsible for business facing experience and cost of the Video on Demand and Live Streaming platform. We build a competitive video transmission network and multimedia processing platform, building data foundation and analysis capabilities, driving product refined operation, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Responsibilities
- Build global infrastructure for multi-media transport, storage and process, to serve billions of users all over the world.
- Engage in global production system management such as monitoring, oncall emergency response, capacity planning and optimization
- Build tools, automations, observability and monitoring to facilitate the operation and optimisation of the global infrastructure.
- Engage in and improve the whole service lifecycle, from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
- Scale up systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and initiate changes that improve system reliability and processing speed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Recent graduates or have graduated strictly within the last 12 months before onboarding in 2026
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
- Knowledge of networking, operation system, database system and container technology.
- Good understanding of microservice architecture, and an understanding in troubleshooting in large scale distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications
- Hands on experience in common open-source system such as Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and ELK.
- Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services
- Working in international teams and across timezones effectively (US, Dublin, China, Singapore)
- Passionate, self-motivated and good teamwork skills.

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