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, 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
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.
The Infrastructure Engineering team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyperscale datacenters. The team manages the end to end lifecycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions and various infrastructure services ensuring that they are scalable and are reliable.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for setup, maintenance and feature releases of the load balancer components.
• In charge of incident response and troubleshooting of the load balancers. Design, improve and contribute to disaster recovery plans. Understand and execute the most suitable disaster recovery plan during emergency.
• Responsible for instructing and supporting internal users to use the load balancer platform.
• Responsible for capacity management of the load balancers. Ensure the SLA and performance of the load balancers, ensure the quality of traffic entrypoint of the datacenters.
• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements.
Qualifications
• At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties: Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & Systems Analysis, Science (Computer Studies)
• Minimum 2 years work experience
• Experience working with traffic systems from CDNs to load balancers and beyond.
• Knowledge of network infrastructure and/or routing.
• Experience with Layer 4 / Layer 7 loadbalancers.
• Knowledge of protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP, RPC, TLS etc.
• Experience working with containerized environment.
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python.
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.
