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Senior Software Engineer, Traffic Platform

ByteDance
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Feb 2026
💰 $341,734/yr($177,688/yr$341,734/yr)

About the role

The Traffic Infrastructure Global Engineering (TIGE)-Traffic Platform team at ByteDance builds and operates multi-cloud based large scale network services around the world that we use to accelerate and optimize network traffic for Tiktok and a variety of application services for ByteDance internal customers, which include but are not limited to layer 4 loadbalancing, layer 4/7 acceleration, global ingress, CMAF, FaaS and WAF, etc. By joining us, you can work within a brilliant team and learn how to build Tiktok scale network traffic platform which serves billions of users globally.

To better support Tiktok, the TIGE- TP team is seeking experienced software engineers who can help improve and expand our multi-cloud based Cloud Native Traffic Platform.

Responsibilities
• Design and develop features of traffic software (DNS Server, L4 and L7 Proxy, Web Caching, and FaaS Runtime), integrate based on our traffic platform to process terabyte-scale data in real-time
• Build data pipeline and develop telemetry systems to support datadriven traffic control
• Develop API acceleration and other networking services that run on top of our multi-cloud based traffic platform
• Problem solving and performance tuning for online traffic
• Research new technologies for more efficient and scalable traffic processing

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177688 - $341734 annually.

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ByteDance

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