Backend Software Engineer Intern (Global LIVE Data Platform) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

With the enormous growth of live streaming in recent years, our mission is to inspire real‑time interactions and help live streamers connect to people from all corners of the globe.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build and optimize a real‑time, high‑performance, large‑scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming in TikTok. You will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for all live streamers and audience alike.

TikTok Live Data Platform is building the Index Platform, Label Platform, Portrait Platform, Diagnostic Platform, Data Asset Management Platform, Data Suite and in‑place solutions for business. Which involves compute (Streaming processing, Offline pipeline) and storage (OLAP: Clickhouse/Doris, KV store). Now we're supporting end‑users TikTok app and Agency's...