Software Engineer Graduate (Metadata Storage)- 2026 Start (PHD)

About Team
The Foundational Technology team is at the core of ByteDance’s global infrastructure, delivering high-availability, performant software components and foundational services. We focus on low-level storage and network domains, with ongoing projects including the development of in-house metadata storage engines for ByteDance’s ultrascale Kubernetes clusters. As an international team, we thrive on innovation and collaboration, working with both technical infrastructure teams (compute, storage, databases) and upper-layer business units (advertising, payments, AI) to solve critical system challenges.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for this future position in 2026. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with Bytedance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit between January 5,2026 to December 14, 2026

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities
As a software engineer on our team, you will:
- Be responsible for the design and development of high-performance metadata storage services, delivering features including distributed coordination, distributed locks, key-value storage, and service discovery.
- Be responsible for delivering automated CI/deployment pipelines and disaster-recovery solutions for metadata storage services.
- Work with SREs to keep the metadata storage services up and running.
- Be the consultant to deliver customized metadata solutions to partner teams in infrastructure (compute, storage, databases, AI, etc.) and upper-layer businesses (video-streaming, ads, payment etc.); you will be deeply involved in system architecture design and optimization based on business scenarios.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $259200 annually.