Software Engineer (ElasticSearch / OpenSearch) - Cloud Infrastructure- San Jose

Responsibilities

About the Team
The Cloud Search team is dedicated to providing a fully managed search service built on open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. The team delivers a reliable, easy-to-use and high-performance search engine for ByteDance's various production workloads. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about search, analytics and distributed systems to join the team. Here we embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. You will experience the benefits of working in an environment that provides the support and mentorship to learn and grow as you need. We also encourage ownership and self-driven enthusiasm to work on various projects.

What you will be doing:
1. Responsible for the design and development of the search platform to fulfil the requirements of all product lines at ByteDance;
2. Extend the capabilities of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Lucene to deliver a reliable and versatile search engine;
3. Troubleshoot problems that occur in the production environment;
4. Enhance the Elasticsearch/OpenSearch ecosystem such as building versatile data ingestion channels to provide an easy-to-use search service;
5. Optimize the search service with high throughput and low latency to meet various business goals;
6. Ensure the reliability and availability of the Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clusters with traffic governance and multi-datacenter disaster recovery capability;
7. Explore and find out the best engineering practices for various business scenarios.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong programming fundamentals with excellent design and coding style, particularly in operating systems, data structures and networking;
- Familiar with Java, JVM, Lucene, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, analytics and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related major, with at least 4 years of relevant experience

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $355000 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.​

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).​

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.​

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:​

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:​

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;​

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and​

3. Exercising sound judgment.​

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.​

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.​