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Senior Software Development Engineer, Virtual Network

ByteDance
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Feb 2026
💰 $438,000/yr($187,040/yr$438,000/yr)

About the role

About the team
ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale.

Responsibilities
• Work on ByteDance's virtual network architecture, design, development, and deployment and collaborate with multiple product teams and customers.
• Apply network virtualization technologies in various cloud products including VMs, containers, and virtual network gateways.
• Utilize hardware offloading technologies and related software stacks in many network virtualization areas and high speed networks.
• Emphasize on software-hardware integration with state-of-the-art programmable hardwares including Tofino and DPUs.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $438000 annually.

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