Software Engineer, CDN Services; San Jose

Software Engineer, CDN Services (San Jose)

Location:

San Jose

Team:

Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

DVVP

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Our Content Distribution Networks (CDN) team operates on a hybrid platform that integrates both commercial CDN vendors and Byte Dance’s proprietary edge network. This platform encompasses a vast array of Points of Presence (POPs) around the world, hosting edge services like traffic acceleration, CDN caching, gaming, and more. We are looking for experienced reliability and performance engineers to ensure the stability and reliability of our edge services and products running on our hybrid CDN platform.

This role will also involve optimizing performance and developing innovative solutions to meet the evolving business demands at the edge. We are looking for skilled Software Engineers to join our global CDN engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize the core software systems that power our worldwide content delivery infrastructure, and to create solutions for ever growing business needs on the edge.

As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will be tasked with ensuring the infrastructure services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective. You will have the opportunity to manage a variety of complex systems at scale, including systems that administer hyperscale datacenters and public cloud, global content distribution networks and load balancers that handle over 100

Tbps of traffic. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with various teams to translate business needs into concrete action items, and/or improvements in system design or procedures.

• Design, build and scale a global site acceleration platform across physical data centers in a cloud native (Kubernetes) environment.
• Build metrics, tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the edge services.
• Build insights through statistical analysis to help drive targeted deployments to expand the coverage of our global infrastructure.
• Analyze, design and implement solutions at the system level to remove bottlenecks and improve edge service performance.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.

• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 2+) years of experience in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major
• 2+ years experience working with Unix Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• 2+ years experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python.

• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong in analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.
• Experience in designing, analyzing and building automation and tools for large scale systems
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc. in a carrier-grade environment. Past experience with CDN technologies is a plus.
• Experience in developing and operating one or more of following systems:
  Open Stack, Kubernetes, Nginx, Envoy, ELK stack, Hadoop, etc.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 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…