Backend Software Engineer Intern (TikTok- PGC-Digital Content Center) - 2027 Summer
TikTok, San Jose, California
About the job
About the Team
Our team builds a global copyright protection platform that translates legal requirements, business policies, and operational workflows into reliable and scalable systems. The platform supports complaint intake, regional routing, human review, enforcement, notifications, creator appeals, rightsholder rebuttals, and proactive content identification.
You will work on complex event-driven systems and multi-region distributed architectures, addressing real-world challenges in consistency, idempotency, cross-region routing, reliability, and compliance.
What We Offer
- Direct involvement in the design and development of TikTok's global copyright protection core systems, with business impact reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
- Hands-on experience with Go microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, and multi-data-center distributed systems.
- Comprehensive mentorship program (1:1 Mentor) with a clear growth path — full-cycle participation from requirement analysis to production deployment.
- A collaborative, cross-functional environment working with product, algorithm, and front-end teams, enabling rapid cross-domain learning.