Software Engineer, CDN Services (Boston)

Our Content Distribution Networks (CDN) team operates on a hybrid platform that integrates both commercial CDN vendors and ByteDance’s proprietary edge network. This platform encompasses a vast array of Points of Presence (POPs) around the world, hosting edge services like traffic acceleration, CDN caching, gaming, and more. We are looking for experienced reliability and performance engineers to ensure the stability and reliability of our edge services and products running on our hybrid CDN platform. This role will also involve optimizing performance and developing innovative solutions to meet the evolving business demands at the edge.

We are looking for skilled Software Engineers to join our global CDN engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize the core software systems that power our worldwide content delivery infrastructure, and to create solutions for ever growing business needs on the edge.

As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will be tasked with ensuring the infrastructure services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective. You will have the opportunity to manage a variety of complex systems at scale, including systems that administer hyperscale datacenters and public cloud, global content distribution networks and load balancers that handle over 100Tbps of traffic. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with various teams to translate business needs into concrete action items, and/or improvements in system design or procedures.

Responsibilities
• Design, build and scale a global site acceleration platform across physical data centers in a cloud native (Kubernetes) environment.
• Build metrics, tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the edge services.
• Build insights through statistical analysis to help drive targeted deployments to expand the coverage of our global infrastructure.
• Analyze, design and implement solutions at the system level to remove bottlenecks and improve edge service performance.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.

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