(General Hire) Software Engineer Intern (Trust and Safety-Engineering) - 2027 Summer
- Locations
- Seattle, United States of America · San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $88,920 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
Stated as USD $42.75 an hour, at 40 hours a week.
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P1, Junior / Specialist. 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 · posts $89k to $89k base at a company over 5,000 · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Software engineering internship on the Trust and Safety engineering team, which builds the systems that protect users from harmful content and abusive behavior. The team works on content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, human moderation platforms, and risk insight systems across the TnS organization.
What you'd do
- Work with T&S specialists, ML engineers, and other cross-functional teams to hit shared goals.
- Sketch out technical solutions alongside teammates.
- Implement technical solutions that support business requirements.
What it asks for
- Enrolled in an undergraduate or master's program in software development, CS, computer engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Able to commit to working 12 weeks during summer 2027.
- Prior experience with Go, Python, PHP, C++, C, or Java.
- Solid grounding in data structures and algorithms.
- Works well with others and communicates clearly.
- Prior software engineering experience from internships, work, projects, or coding competitions (preferred).
- High creativity and quick problem-solving ability (preferred).
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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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