Software Engineer (SRE - Platform Services), Platform

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an Always Day 1 mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance 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 enrich life. 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.

Responsibilities

The DCS platform team's goal is to build all the necessary and advanced tooling to support full-lifecycle operation and management of domestic and overseas data centers, covering data center infrastructure operation and maintenance, server delivery, server operation, asset and resource management, platform tooling, as well as cloud services and server system services.

Our vision is to provide highly available, stable, high-performance, and cost-effective computing resources for all business lines of the company.

Role Descriptions

We are looking for a self-motivated software engineer. Your responsibilities will include:
- Build platforms, systems and services for internal and external teams to interact with the large scale production systems.
- Build tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
- Bring new ideas and technologies into our platform, innovate and iterate.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working with two or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, developing large software systems.
- Either DICM (Discovery, Insights, and Configuration Management), ITOM (IT Operation Management), or ITSM (IT Service Management) experience required for the role.
- Experience with GPU, big data experience (Hadoop/Kafka/Apache) or streaming/computing would be a key indicator of a successful candidate.

Preferred Qualifications
- 3 years software development experience with Golang or Python.
- Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques.
- Experience of troubleshooting in a fast-paced production environment.
- Strong sense of web design and attuned to the fundamentals of user experience.