[Remote] Software Development Engineer Intern(Foundation Software)- 2026 Summer (MS/BS)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ByteDance is a global technology company that inspires creativity and enriches life. They are seeking a Software Development Engineer Intern to assist in designing and developing high-performance metadata services and support the creation of automated deployment solutions.

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

Skills

• Currently pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
• 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)
• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during [Summer or Fall] 2026
• Familiarity with advanced data structures (LSM trees, B+ trees) and algorithms (Paxos, Raft). Online courses and books such as MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems and Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) are good study resources for those topics
• 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)

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 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

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