Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Native Platform
ByteDanceAbout the role
Responsibilities
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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 Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Edge platform is a kubernetes-based distributed system that manages hundreds of PoPs around the world and aims to provide cloud native interfaces to allow internal and external users to deploy and manage kinds of location/latency sensitive workloads, which includes traffic acceleration, CDN cache, gaming, livestreaming, RTC, edge computing, etc.
We (IAAS, or infra as a service group) are seeking experienced software engineers expertized in kubernetes, virtualization, or networking stack to work together to further enhance the workload lifecycle management, multi-tenant isolation, and performance optimization, and scaling out capability.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to build enterprise-level platform (PaaS) that serves both internal and external teams.
• Develop service and infra components in kubernetes ecosystem, like CRD controller, k8s enhancement, cni, container runtime, kernel/ebpf etc.
• Write the necessary unit test, integration test, and end-to-end test.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and be responsible end-to-end to the production environment.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience) in Computer Science, Computing Engineering, or related fields.
• 2+ years experience in programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, C/C++.
• Worked with one or more databases and messaging frameworks, such as MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, etc.• • Experience in one of the following domains: Kubernetes, operator, docker/container, VM, cni technologies, linux networking stack.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in k8s-related development, such as Kubernetes enhancement/extension, Operator and CRD development, or other related Open Source projects.
• Experience with networking development, especially in CNI development, like cilium, calico, Multus cni, etc.
• Deep understanding of virtualization, like docker/container, VM, lightweight VM, kata, firecracker, etc.
•Expertized knowledge in service mesh, proxies, kubernetes federation, and kernel/networking stack.
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.
ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137200 - $330000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:
We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings A
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