Software Development Engineer Intern (Metadata Storage) - 2026 Start (PhD)
Company: ByteDance
Location: San Jose, CA
Type: Internship
Level: Junior
Posted: 2026-02-26
About this role
Responsibilities
About the Team
The Foundational Technology team is at the core of ByteDance’s global infrastructure, delivering high-availability, performant software components and foundational services. We focus on low-level storage and network domains, with ongoing projects including the development of in-house metadata storage engines for ByteDance’s ultrascale Kubernetes clusters. As an international team, we thrive on innovation and collaboration, working with both technical infrastructure teams (compute, storage, databases) and upper-layer business units (advertising, payments, AI) to solve critical system challenges.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. PhD Internships at ByteDance aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies.
PhD internships at ByteDance provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).
Responsibilities
As an intern on our team, you will:
- 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, ...