Site Reliability Engineer, Traffic Platform

Responsibilities

About the Team The team builds and operates large-scale, massively distributed infrastructures, applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles of software and systems engineering to ensure our traffic services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable, and cost-effective. You will have the opportunity to manage a variety of complex systems at scale, including traffic systems serving hyperscale datacenters and public cloud environments, and a global load balancer that handles Tbps of traffic.

We build and operate multi-cloud-based, large-scale network services around the world to accelerate and optimize network traffic for TikTok and a variety of application services for ByteDance internal customers. These services include, but are not limited to, Layer 4 load balancing, Layer 4/7 acceleration, global ingress, CMAF, FaaS, and WAF. By joining us, you can work within a brilliant team and learn how to build a TikTok-scale network traffic platform serving billions of users globally.

Responsibilities - Build, expand and operate ByteDance's global traffic platform, including large-scale systems in public and private clouds, edge data centers. - Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global traffic platform. - Work in a fast-paced environment.

Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues. - Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development, to deployment, user support and refinement.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major.
• Proven years experience working with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• At least 3 years experience in one or more programming languages such as

Go, Python and Shell script.

• Familiar with Cloud and CI/CD framework/Tools, such as GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing, analyzing and building automation and tools for large scale systems
• Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, etc. in a carrier-grade environment.
• Experience in developing and operating one or more of following systems: Kubernetes, Nginx, ipvs, ELK stack, etc.
• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong in analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.

Job Information

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.