Senior Software Development Engineer, Virtual Network

6 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Network Engineering • $224,000 PA - $410,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in ByteDance's Virtual Network team, you'll design, develop, and deploy virtual network architectures. You'll collaborate with multiple teams and apply virtualization technologies across cloud products (VMs, containers, gateways). Experience with hardware offloading, integration with programmable hardware (Tofino, DPUs), and high-performance networking is crucial. Responsibilities include working on VPC, VxLAN, OVS, EVPN, and utilizing C/C++, Go. You'll contribute to the global infrastructure powering popular apps like TikTok and Douyin, ensuring high availability and scalability.
Must have:
  • Virtual network technologies (VPC, VxLAN, OVS, EVPN)
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Go
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Distributed systems experience
  • Linux/kernel programming
Good to have:
  • Hardware acceleration & offloading
  • P4 programming (Tofino, NPL, Pensando)
  • High-performance networking (RDMA, RoCEv2)
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • 10 paid holidays

Job Details

Responsibilities
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, 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 imagination 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. --- About the team ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe. ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale. Responsibilities • Work on ByteDance's virtual network architecture, design, development, and deployment and collaborate with multiple product teams and customers. • Apply network virtualization technologies in various cloud products including VMs, containers, and virtual network gateways. • Utilize hardware offloading technologies and related software stacks in many network virtualization areas and high speed networks. • Emphasize on software-hardware integration with state-of-the-art programmable hardwares including Tofino and DPUs.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications • Familiar with virtual network technologies such as VPC, VxLAN, OVS, EVPN, etc. • Proficient in several mainstream programming languages such as C/C++, Go, etc. • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills • Experience in distributed systems a plus • Experience in Linux and/or kernel programming and development a plus Preferred Qualifications: • Familiar with hardware acceleration and offloading technologies, etc. • Familiar with P4 programming on Tofino, NPL, and Pensando, etc. • Familiar with high performance networking technologies such as RDMA and RoCEv2, 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. ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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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.

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