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 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 the Team
Our team is seeking experienced site reliability engineers to build globally distributed platform for provisioning and deploying edge services, such as traffic acceleration, CDN cache, gaming, etc. We use Kubernetes to manage on-prem/cloud nodes and build an eco-system around it, including tools for monitoring, alerting, logging, CI/CD, etc. and various services with automated deployment/scaling in order to maximize daily operation efficiencies. On top of the Kubernetes infrastructure, we build a PaaS platform to help deploy and manage global edge services.
Responsibilities
• Deploy and administrate Kubernetes clusters both on-prem and in cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platform (PaaS) with cutting-edge Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technologies.
• Design, develop, automate, and continuously improve platform services and pipelines, such as monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc.
• Improve Kubernetes system efficiency and debug issues related to networking, storage, scheduling, etc.
• Collaborate with open-source communities to advance Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.
• 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
Minimum Qualifications
• At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties: Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & Systems Analysis, Science (Computer Studies)
• Experience in Kubernetes administration.
• Experience in Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond.
• Experience with Kubernetes CNI deployment and troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) the following CNIs: Cilium, Kube-Router, Calico, Flannel.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and building automation tools for large scale and complex systems.
Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification.
• Experience in using and contributing to open-source projects in Kubernetes ecosystem, e.g. Kubespray, CNI, Helm, KubeEdge, Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus, ArgoCD, OPA, Harbor, Envoy, etc.
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, load balancers, etc.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and development.
• Experience in Kubernetes API, Operator, and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) development.
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 $137200 - $330000 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.
