Site Reliability Engineer

**About ByteDance**

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, 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 Us**

At ByteDance, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for millions of users across all of our products. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at ByteDance.

**About the Team**

Our infrastructure team is seeking experienced site reliability engineers to build globally distributed platform for provisioning and deploying edge services, such as traffic acceleration, CDN cache, gaming, etc. We use Kubernetes to manage on-prem/cloud nodes and build an eco-system around it, including tools for monitoring, alerting, logging, CI/CD, etc. and various services with automated deployment/scaling in order to maximize daily operation efficiencies. On top of the Kubernetes infrastructure, we build a PaaS platform to help deploy and manage global edge services.

**Responsibilities**
- Deploy and administrate Kubernetes clusters both on-prem and in cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platform (PaaS) with cutting-edge Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technologies.
- Design, develop, automate, and continuously improve platform services and pipelines, such as monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc.
- Improve Kubernetes system efficiency and debug issues related to networking, storage, scheduling, etc.
- Collaborate with open-source communities to advance Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.

**Qualifications**
- Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
- Experience in Kubernetes administration.
- Experience in Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond.
- Experience with Kubernetes CNI deployment and troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) the following CNIs: Cilium, Kube-Router, Calico, Flannel.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and building automation tools for large scale and complex systems.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification.
- Experience in using and contributing to open-source projects in Kubernetes ecosystem, e.g. Kubespray, CNI, Helm, KubeEdge, Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus, ArgoCD, OPA, Harbor, Envoy, etc.
- Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, load balancers, etc.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and development.
- Experience in Kubernetes API, Operator, and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) development.

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.