Tech Lead Manager, Authorization Product

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Monetization • $210,000 PA - $358,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

ByteDance seeks a Tech Lead Manager for its Authorization Product in San Jose. This role involves leading and growing a US engineering team, setting product vision and strategy, and ensuring the development of secure, scalable authorization infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing team growth, collaborating with various teams (Product, Operations, Security/Legal/Compliance), and serving as a technical expert for authorization products and tools. The team focuses on building a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, enforcing fine-grained access control, providing intuitive user experiences, and governing permissions through automation. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership experience, backend system design skills, and excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Must have:
  • 5+ years industry experience in highly distributed environment
  • 3+ years engineering leadership experience
  • Experience designing and implementing large-scale backend systems
  • Collaboration across functional teams
  • Problem-solving, debugging skills
  • Excellent written/verbal communication
Good to have:
  • Security experience
  • Experience with Least Privilege Access Control
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid holidays and sick days
  • Paid Personal Time

Job Details

Responsibilities
Team Introduction We are building the central and unified authorization service at Bytedance. The services we build and support include - Authorization Product, which provides the customer-facing interface that's used by all Bytedance employees daily. - Authorization Backend, which provides the unified and central authorization capability at Bytedance We have an unique opportunity to drive Least Privilege Access Control on Bytedance Infrastructure and make it the most secure cloud in the industry. Experience with security is a plus, but not required for our positions, and we welcome any engineer with security mindset and passionate about building secure and scalable infra to talk to us! We have four major initiatives in our team: - Build the most secure, reliable and scalable infra that enables high-quality service. - Enforce fine-grained access control to secure all Bytedance resources and assets. - Provide intuitive, efficient and transparent access experience to our users. - Govern the permissions with automation and tools that enforce the least-privileged access control. Responsibilities: - Grow and manage the authorization engineering US team - Set the product vision and strategy with product and business teams, and oversee the engineering roadmap. - Effectively scale the engineering team by attracting and mentoring extraordinary people at various experience levels to grow a high performing and diverse team. - Serve as a technical expert for requirements, design and implementation of company-wide authorization products and tools - Serve as a technical expert for requirements, design and implementation of authorization products and tools - Partner with Product, Operation team, Security/Legal/Compliance and other Bytedance Engineering teams to drive the company-wide authorization area
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors. - 5+ years of industry experience in a highly distributed environment - 3+ years of engineering leadership experience - Experienced in the design and implementation of large scale backend systems - Experienced in driving collaboration across various functional teams on delivering shared goals. - Creative problem-solving skills and excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills - Strong written/verbal communication and excellent teamwork skills
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210000 - $358000 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.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance 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

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