ByteDance is looking to solve critical system challenges by developing high-availability, performant software components and foundational services, including low-level storage and network domains, and in-house metadata storage engines for ultrascale Kubernetes clusters.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in C++ or Go in Linux environments, with experience in writing clean, maintainable and testable code.
- Have a solid understanding of CS Fundamentals: basic data structures (lists, queues, stacks, trees, graphs, hash tables) and algorithms (binary search, quick sort, divide and conquer, backtracking), operating system (processes, threads, mutexes, semaphores, deadlock, paging, segmentation, file system), network (OSI models, TCP/UDP, IP addressing, HTTP, DNS).
- Have a basic understanding of distributed systems (e.g. CAP theorem), databases (e.g. relational vs nosql, transaction, isolation levels), and storage systems (e.g. replication, erasure encoding).
- Familiarity with advanced data structures (LSM trees, B+ trees) and algorithms (Paxos, Raft).
- Hands-on or research experience with distributed systems such as HDFS, Colossus, Spanner, Chubby, ZooKeeper, etcd.
- Familiarity with linux system programming (epoll, io uring) and high performance networking (RDMA, DPDK)
Responsibilities
- Assist in designing and developing ultra-performance metadata services, including distributed coordination, locking, key-value storage, and service discovery features.
- Support the creation of automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions for virtualized and bare-metal environments.
- Analyze service performance metrics, generate insights, and propose data-driven improvements to enhance reliability and efficiency.
- Participate in technical discussions and documentation efforts, ensuring alignment with team standards and best practices.
Other
- Currently pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during [Summer or Fall] 2026
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment
- Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more.
- Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).
