Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Positions)
ByteDanceAbout the role
Responsibilities
About ByteDance
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, 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.
Join us.
About the Team
Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!
Responsibilities
- Build cross sites and cross uplink providers traffic management system based on DNS to manage the company’s self-built CDN PoPs, supporting user performance optimization and resource load balancing.
- Work with the team to build a traffic management system that provides one-stop solutions for edge services running on our edge platform.
- Design and build a control system that directs traffic following performance optimization strategies through DNS.
- Automate optimized traffic management strategies for global users.
- Design and build traffic mapping systems to process ~TB data in real time.
- Deliver traffic of video and application throughout the Internet.
- Build data pipeline and develop telemetry systems to support data-driven traffic control.
- Build pipelines for real-time network / user topology / server resource etc.
- Problem solving and performance tuning for online traffic.
- Work with the Edge Platform team in operating hundreds of PoPs and their networking and traffic around the world to run edge workloads (e.g. CDN cache, live streaming, gaming, real-time communication, etc.).
Qualifications
Qualifications
Must have a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related field, and 2 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related field, and 5 years of post-bachelor’s, progressive related work experience.
Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in the following skills:
- Designing and implementing software service architecture to support high throughput and fault tolerant services;
- Automating and managing the full release lifecycle, including code development, build, testing, validation, and deployment;
- Developing CI/CD tools in Python and writing automation Bash Shell scripts;
- Designing and implementing large-scale, distributed online software services using Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, or Python;
- Designing and implementing User Interfaces and scripts to automate common flows using HTML, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby; and
- Maintaining and debugging software.
Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary Range: $184300 - $337250 per year
To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact lpresumes@bytedance.com if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website.
ByteDance Inc. 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 bring joy. 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 lpresumes@bytedance.com.
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