Site Reliability Engineer Project Intern (Security Engineering) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

ByteDance is a company that inspires creativity and enriches life with innovative products. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Project Intern to support their security engineering team in building security services and platforms while gaining practical skills in a fast-paced work environment.

What you'll do:

• Ensure reliable operation of ultra-large-scale security infrastructure meeting strict SLAs
• Design and develop automation platforms for security core systems, enhancing observability for rapid fault detection
• Optimize service reliability, scalability, and performance through systematic improvements
• Build automated solutions supporting rapid iteration of large-scale production clusters
• Participate in OnCall rotation and collaborate with R&D teams on incident resolution

What they're looking for:

• Undergraduate, or Postgraduate who is currently pursuing a degree/master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other STEM disciplines
• Programming skills in Go/Python/Shell or equivalent
• Proficient in Linux systems with networking/storage architecture expertise
• Practical experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, containerization)
• Understanding of DevOps components: Infrastructure (Load Balancers, Nginx) Automation (Ansible, Argo CD) Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong team collaboration skills with ownership mentality
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure operations (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Cybersecurity product expertise: Anti-DDoS/WAF/HIDS systems
• Development experience for large-scale O&M platforms/tools
• Big data stack operations: Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Spark, Flink

Benefits:

• Day one access to health insurance
• Day one access to life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• More
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
• Housing allowance (for interns who are not working 100% remote)