Site Reliability Engineer, Traffic Platform

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with ByteDance.
Team Introduction
The Traffic Infrastructure Global Engineering (TIGE) team at ByteDance operates a large network of POPs around the world that we use to accelerate site traffic and cache CDN content, and we own all layer 4 and layer 7 traffic management for Tiktok Edge. By joining us, you can learn how to build content delivery networks and Edge Computing Platform within Tiktok's Edge.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed infrastructures. Our SREs are tasked to ensure the traffic services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective. You will have the opportunity to manage a variety of complex systems at scale, including traffic systems that serve hyperscale datacenters and public cloud, global load balancer that handles Tbps of traffic etc..
Responsibility
Build, expand and operate Bytedance’s global traffic platform, including large-scale systems in public and private clouds, edge data centers.
- Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global traffic platform.
- Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.
- Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development, to deployment, user support and refinement

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Master’s or Bachelor's degree with within Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major
- Experience with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
- Past experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python and Shell script.
- Familiar with Cloud and CI/CD framework/Tools, such as GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
- Strong in analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in designing, analyzing and building automation and tools for large scale systems
- Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
- Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, etc. in a carrier-grade environment.
- Experience in developing and operating one or more of following systems: Kubernetes, Nginx, ipvs, ELK stack, etc.

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.