Full-Time

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Data Infrastructure

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

ByteDance

ByteDance

10,001+ employees

Operates global content platforms and apps

No salary listed

Senior

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Seattle, WA, USA

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Rust
Python
MySQL
Java
Go
Redis
C/C++
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 5+ years of experience
  • Experience programming in one of the following Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, and Rust
  • Familiar with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems
Responsibilities
  • Participate in and enhance the complete service lifecycle, from inception and design, through development, capacity planning, launch reviews, deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Design and implement software platforms and monitoring frameworks to govern service-oriented architecture (SOA) efficiently, automatically, and intelligently.
  • Develop and manage components of cloud-managed data infrastructure, encompassing technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Flink, and more.
  • Establish sustainable mechanisms for scaling systems, such as automation, to drive enhancements in reliability, efficiency, and velocity.
  • Provide sustainable user support, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless postmortems as part of our ongoing efforts to improve our systems.
  • Design and implement strategic solutions for optimal resource utilization and budget alignment, as well as integrate these solutions into product tools to drive cost reduction and enhance automated platform capabilities.
  • Responsible for designing stability solutions, managing technical issues, optimizing system operations, using product tools for scalable solutions, and understanding industry trends to provide personalized stability solutions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in MySQL, Redis, Ngnix, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.
  • Experience in designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems
  • Expertise in cost optimization, resource management, infrastructure planning, a systematic and product-oriented mindset, and proven abilities in project management as well as data structure and analysis
  • Hands-on experience in ensuring system stability, optimizing complex processes, implementing high availability architectures, promoting stability awareness, and having previously built and operated a stability assurance system from the ground up. This system should highlight process formalization, standardization, usage of tooling, and continuous improvements
  • Strong skills in problem-solving and communication

ByteDance operates various content platforms that aim to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire users from different backgrounds. Its main products include Toutiao, a news aggregation app, and Douyin, a popular short video sharing platform in China. Internationally, ByteDance is best known for TikTok, which allows users to create and share short videos. Other products include Helo, a social media platform in India, and Lark, an enterprise collaboration tool. The company uses advanced algorithms to personalize user experiences, which helps keep users engaged. ByteDance generates revenue primarily through advertising, allowing brands to target specific audiences on its platforms. This focus on user-generated content and effective advertising strategies sets ByteDance apart from competitors like Facebook and Google. The company's goal is to create engaging content platforms that cater to a global audience.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$5.6B

Headquarters

Beijing, China

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • Investment in data centers in Brazil and Thailand boosts data processing capabilities.
  • Seed1.5-VL model enhances AI capabilities, improving content personalization and user engagement.
  • Seedream 3.0 on CapCut's Dreamina platform attracts creators with innovative AI image processing.

What critics are saying

  • TikTok's U.S. eCommerce job cuts may impact operational efficiency and morale.
  • Brazil data center project faces regulatory and political challenges.
  • Open-source AI tools could increase competition and intellectual property risks.

What makes ByteDance unique

  • ByteDance's advanced algorithms personalize user experiences, enhancing engagement and retention.
  • The company leverages open-source AI tools like Agent TARS for task automation.
  • ByteDance's DeerFlow tool combines NLP and data analytics for superior customer acquisition.

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Tiktok Shop Job Cuts Loom Amid Ban And Tariff Uncertainty

TikTok’s U.S. eCommerce workers are reportedly facing possible job cuts. That’s according to a Bloomberg News report Wednesday (May 21), citing an internal memo to the social media company’s employees advising them to work from home as they await emails on “difficult decisions.”. The Chinese-owned company is examining ways to “create a more efficient operating model,” wrote Mu Qing, who took over TikTok Shop in the U.S. in April

VC Cafe
May 16th, 2025
Weekly Firgun Newsletter - May 16 2025

ByteDance has introduced Agent TARS, an open-source AI tool designed for automating complex tasks by visually interpreting web content and interacting with system elements.

MarkTechPost
May 15th, 2025
ByteDance Introduces Seed1.5-VL: A Vision-Language Foundation Model Designed to Advance General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning

Researchers at ByteDance have developed Seed1.5-VL, a compact yet powerful vision-language foundation model featuring a 532 M-parameter vision encoder and a 20 B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM.