ByteDance

Builds content apps, business software and AI

Full Stack Engineer - Traffic Management

DevOps & InfrastructureConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSeattle, WA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Master's degree, or a Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience, in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
Experience with Domain Name System (DNS) services.
Knowledge of networking protocols including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Internet Protocol (IPv4 and IPv6), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
Experience with networking tools including ping, mtr, and traceroute.
Experience with networking metrics including Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), sFlow, and NetFlow.
Experience with IPDB.
Knowledge of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), and QUIC.

Responsibilities

Design and build a control system that directs traffic using performance-based or cost-based routing strategies.
Analyze and troubleshoot the global TikTok user-routing layer performance.
Support ByteDance internal and external services on public internet topology and connectivity.

Desired Qualifications

3+ years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Knowledge of the internet Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
Experience with AI agents.

About the Team: Edge Traffic Scheduling team is seeking experienced developers for our edge network and maintain its stability as well as drive the functionality and capability of our infrastructure to the next level. Our team builds cross sites (also cross uplink providers) traffic management system based on DNS, to manage TikTok's self-built CDN PoPs, supporting user performance optimization and resource load balancing. Edge Traffic Scheduling team operates 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.). The cross PoP traffic scheduling system is one of the core parts of the platform, as it has a direct impact on user experience. We are looking for passionate engineers to join and work together to build a traffic management system that provides one-stop solutions for edge services running on our edge platform. Responsibilities: - Design and build a control system that directs traffic following performance-based or cost-based routing strategies - Global TikTok users routing layer performance analysis and troubleshooting - ByteDance internal and external services support on public internet topology and connectivity Minimum Qualifications: - Master’s degree (or bachelor’s degree with 3+) years of experience in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related quantitative fields - Experience with DNS service - Knowledge of networking protocols such as BGP, IP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP, UDP - Experience with networking tools, including ping, mtr, traceroute - Experience with networking metrics, including SNMP, sflow / netflow - Experience with IPDB - Knowledge of HTTP, HTTPS, QUIC Preferred Qualifications: - 3+ years’ experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python - Experience with Kubernetes - Knowledge of internet OSI model - Experience with AI Agent

About the Company

ByteDance

Builds content apps, business software and AI

ByteDance builds content and creation apps for consumers, alongside collaboration software and AI services for businesses. Its video platforms connect viewers with creators, while CapCut gives people tools to edit and publish videos. The group also develops Lark for workplace communication and shared documents, and its Seed research teams build language, image, video, and speech models used in consumer apps and sold through BytePlus cloud services. It earns money from advertising, commerce services, paid software subscriptions, and usage of its enterprise technology. ByteDance was founded in 2012 and has its operational headquarters in Beijing, China.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Private
Total funding: $35.1B
Headquarters: Haidian, China
Founded: 2012

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