Cybersecurity Engineer Intern (TikTok Shop - Governance Service) - 2026 (BS/MS)

About the team
TikTok Shop is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices. TikTok Shop business team hopes to provide users with more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, thereby making more affordable and high-quality products easily accessible and improving lives.

The TikTok Shop's Governance Service team is a global team responsible for ensuring a safe and trustworthy marketplace not only for our buyers but also for our sellers and creators. We continually work on areas such as risk detection abilities, fairness, and sustainability of the E-Commerce ecosystem, content and commodity quality, and friction-free experiences to drive improvement.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to either of the following Internships
- From January to June
- From May to August (Summer)

Responsibilities
- Conduct traceability analysis on e-commerce business risk cases based on business logs, traffic data, intelligence data, etc., and summarise attack methods.
- Under the guidance of engineers, maintain and optimize data tables for e-commerce API assets to support new tagging requirements from the governance side.
- Explore the black industry chain in key business scenarios, build intelligence collection tools, and understand the operation, profit models, and scale trends of black and gray industry chains.
- Track internet black-market attacks, perform reverse analysis of black-market tools and cheating software, restore attack methods and attack paths, and identify defense blind spots.