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Senior Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases

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

About the role

About the Team
Join ByteDance’s database development team, where you’ll build and own cutting-edge database products supporting Bytedance’s global infrastructure. Our diverse portfolio includes relational databases, distributed caches, key-value stores, document databases, graph databases, wide-column stores, search engines, and multi-model databases. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance these services in a cloud-native environment, embracing a culture of intellectual curiosity, self-direction, and problem-solving. We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. We are looking for candidates to work in an open, agile, and highly collaborative environment in the following areas:
- Query Processing, including query execution, query optimization, system catalog, database schema management, etc.
- Distributed Processing, including distributed transactions, distributed lock management, logging/recovery, replication, intra-cluster communication etc.
- Distributed Storage including blob storage, key-value stores such as rocksdb, ETCD or Zookeeper etc.
- Cluster and system management including database scale out, high availability, backup/restore, database monitoring, observability and serviceability frameworks and tools including telemetry collection, performance and crash diagnostics etc.

Responsibilities
- Partner with PMs and engineers from different teams on building backend support for cloud database service products.
- Design and development of core database system functionalities and related tools.
- Conduct performance and scalability tests and research innovative ideas for improvement.
- Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional and system-test for product quality.
- Participate in release and deployment process.
- Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects.
- Solve unique, large-scale, highly complex cloud infrastructure problems
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available

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

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ByteDance

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