Site Reliability Engineer - Security Engineering - San Jose

5 Months ago • 5 Years + • Cyber Security • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

ByteDance's Security Engineering team is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build and maintain the security infrastructure for their global platforms. This role will focus on designing and implementing security SRE frameworks, building cutting-edge technologies for system deployment, and ensuring high availability and performance for security products and services. You'll be working with a team of talented engineers and have the opportunity to contribute to the security of millions of users worldwide. Responsibilities include leading or driving an SRE team, implementing automation, optimizing system health, developing maintenance tools, and supporting cross-functional teams. This role requires a strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud native frameworks, and automation tools.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields
  • 5+ years of experience in SRE
  • Solid programming skills in Go/Java/Python/Shell
  • Experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and optimization of distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of OS, Network, and computer architecture
  • Familiarity with Redis/MySQL/PostgreSQL database architecture and operation
  • Experience with cloud native framework and Kubernetes
  • Experience with SRE tools like Ansible, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana
Good to have:
  • Passionate about self-studying cutting edge technologies
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Job Details

Responsibilities
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo 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. About Security Team at ByteDance The security engineering team is missioned to build security services, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. You also have opportunities to go through the whole lifecycle of security products or services, are encouraged to participate in each phase, each part of the projects and have the whole picture of what we are working on. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower our users with high availability and stellar performance level to pursue their missions from security perspective. As we expand our business in APAC, we are currently seeking experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale security systems in real time. You will not only address those regular day-to-day technical problems but also are encouraged to bring fresh ideas, investigate the existing infrastructure, identify problems, and develop new solutions to those challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. We are moving fast while expanding on a large scale (1B+ users). This role assumes a huge impact and plays a key role in the company's business. Responsibilities 1. Lead or drive an SRE team to design and implement the security SRE framework for the company's security infrastructure, and build cutting-edge SRE technologies for system deployment, upgrade, capacity planning and rapid troubleshooting and disaster recovery. 2. With cutting edge technologies, drive the implementation and the improvement of automation and the intelligence of the SRE infrastructure and evolve it into a platform; build solutions to measure and monitor availability, scalability, latency and overall system health of security products and services developed by partner teams, and improve the efficiency and sustainability of system maintenance. 3. Drive the design and development of the SRE infrastructure and maintenance tools for the full lifecycle of security system development; support the rapid iteration and system reliability of the company's security services. 4. Coordinate support to cross-functional teams and external customers with security products and services. 5. Responsible for building, scaling, managing and coaching the SRE team, as well as driving technical decisions as a leader.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications 1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, with minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in developing and maintaining large-scale distributed SRE platform/tooling with automation. 2. Solid programming skills, mastering at least one of the programming skills such as Go/Java/Python/Shell, and being able to deliver high quality code; Familiar with at least one of the web frameworks, such as Gin/Django/Spring, with a decent understanding of their design principles. 3. Experienced and hands-on skills in debugging, troubleshooting and optimization of sophisticated distributed systems and platforms 4. Deep understanding of OS (Linux, windows), Network (TCP/IP, HTTP, etc), with good exposure to network, storage, as well as computer architecture. 5. Familiar with Redis/MySQL/PostgreSQL database architecture and working principle, familiar with daily operation and maintenance including but not limited to high availability cluster construction, monitoring, backup, fault handling, Performance optimization. 6. Familiar with cloud native framework with experience in Kubernetes. Good experience with SRE tools such as Ansible, ELK, Prometheus and Grafana. Preferred Qualifications 1. Passionate about self-studying cutting edge technologies and staying relevant. Strong communication and collaboration skills, and willing to take ownership. 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

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