Big Data System Engineer

Job Title: Big Data System Engineer

About the Team

The data management team is working on building products that handle every stage of the big data pipeline, from ingestion and integration to development, cataloging, security, and governance.

These solutions support various businesses, allowing data engineers and scientists to significantly boost their productivity.

As a software engineer in the data management suite team, you will have the opportunity to build, optimize, and scale one of the largest data platforms worldwide.

You'll gain hands-on experience with core systems within the data platform ecosystem.

Our work will directly and greatly impact the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for production stability for big data development and governance systems.
• Engage in and enhance the entire lifecycle of services, from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust, and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with site reliability engineering, monitoring, and alerting for big data-related systems.
• Experience writing code in Java, Go, Python, or a similar language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge about a variety of strategies for ingesting, modeling, processing, and persisting data, ETL design, job scheduling, and dimensional modeling.
• Familiarity with running production-grade services at scale and understanding cloud-native technologies and networking.
• Experience developing tools and APIs to reduce human interaction with systems and applications using a variety of coding and scripting standards.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems is a plus (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink, or comparable solutions).
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

Why ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of our mission. Our innovative products help people authentically express themselves, discover, and connect – all made possible by our global and diverse teams.

Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity, and enrich life – our daily mission.

As part of our team, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an 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

We're 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're committed to celebrating our diverse voices and creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.

We're passionate about this and hope you are too.

Job Highlights

• Industry experts
• Meals provided
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible hours