Backend Software Engineer Intern (Data Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start (BS/MS)
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P1, Junior / Specialist. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Australia. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Australia, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: an early-career or graduate seat · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Backend engineering internship on the Trust and Safety engineering team, which builds content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, human moderation platforms and risk insight systems. The work covers safety on international live streaming products.
What you'd do
- Research and develop trust and safety systems and product features for international live streaming.
- Improve safety processes, user perception and review efficiency on live streaming.
- Build strategy platform components used in safety decisions.
- Help build high-concurrency, high-stability systems that serve growing daily active users.
- Study product needs and dig into live streaming safety problems to propose fixes.
What it asks for
- Degree at bachelor level or higher in computer science or a close technical field.
- Proficiency in data structures and algorithms.
- Programming in at least one of Python, Go, PHP, C++ or Java.
- Strong problem analysis and root-cause thinking (preferred).
- Good communication and teamwork skills (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Internship running December 2026 to February 2027, with onboarding by December 7, 2026.
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About TikTok
The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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