Production System Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

Overview Be among the first applicants to join ByteDance as a Production Systems Engineer in our Infrastructure Engineering team. The team supports the company's growth by building and operating hyperscale datacenters, managing the end-to-end lifecycle of the server fleet, and providing cloud solutions and infrastructure services that are scalable and reliable. Embark on an expedition to ByteDance's global data centers and contribute to the orchestration, deployment, operation, and eventual retirement of production servers. Responsibilities Operation: Contribute to the stability, efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability of data center and server operations, platforms, and services on a worldwide scale. Lifecycle Enhancement: Participate in and enhance the entire lifecycle of the server fleet—from design and introduction through launch reviews, deployment, operation, and retirement. Automation: Develop and deploy tools to improve automation, reliability, scalability, and operability of servers in the datacenter. Monitoring: Develop and deploy tools to improve availability, latency, and overall health of datacenter infrastructure, servers, and networks. Disaster Recovery: Troubleshoot complex issues in high-pressure environments, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures and postmortems. Cross-team Collaboration: Work with infrastructure architects, project managers, data center operations engineers, platform developers, supply chain teams, and internal customers to align with business objectives; design and implement solutions for Core IDCs and CDN/Edge. On-call: Participate in on-call support across regions and incident response teams to address production issues. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. At least 3 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Server Operations: Linux system administration, kernel/driver knowledge, Bash and Python scripting for automation, performance tuning, and security management. Server hardware understanding with experience in planning, delivery, and operation of large-scale data centers in multiple countries. Tooling Adaptation, Deployment, and Maintenance: Customizing operations/maintenance tools for new server hardware, monitoring, provisioning resources, fault management, and hardware upkeep. Experience developing and maintaining monitoring software for 10,000+ servers. Preferred Qualifications: Data Center experience across OS installation, break-fix operations, planning and operations of the infrastructure lifecycle, and design-build or retrofit activities for existing systems. Proficiency in operating and maintaining GPU servers. Full stack software development skills including RESTful APIs (Flask), JavaScript/Node.js, SQL, Redis, and familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and deployment. About Us Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With products including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico, ByteDance also operates platforms for the China market such as Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua. Why Join ByteDance ByteDance values creativity, curiosity, humility, and impact. We strive to create an inclusive environment that reflects the diverse communities we reach, and we are committed to celebrating diverse voices and experiences. Joining ByteDance means being part of a global, innovative team that aims to deliver meaningful breakthroughs for our customers and users. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Information Technology Industries Technology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at ByteDance. #J-18808-Ljbffr