Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Native Infrastructure

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

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 Cloud Native Infrastructure team is part of the core Technical Infrastructure engineering team of ByteDance R&D. The team implements and manages a Kubernetes-like Cloud-Native Orchestration framework and cluster management system to host microservices, serverless applications, big data processing, machine learning, distributed storage services, and edge computing platforms for the company.

With the super-fast growing TikTok business and its fleet of machines across Multi-Clouds hosting hundreds of millions of containers and applications, it's critical to deliver a world-class orchestration system with high agility, large scalability, high availability, and extreme performance assurance.

We are hiring both Senior Software Engineers to accelerate the innovation on the next-gen Cloud-Native Infrastructure and Orchestration framework.

As a development engineer of the team, you will have various opportunities to learn cutting-edge cloud-native and k8s technologies in a hyper-scale environment, work with super innovative and open-minded engineers across teams with diverse and inclusive cultures, and challenge yourself to develop a complex world-class k8s system and grow your career in a multi-cloud era.

Responsibilities

• Build application orchestration framework to host various types of production workloads, covering services management, big data jobs, distributed machine learning systems, and distributed storage services
• Build strong container-based cluster management to manage our hyper-scale resources and workloads, with horizontal scalability and extreme e2e container startup latency
• Design and build flexible distributed resources and tasks scheduling framework to meet various needs
• Design and build cluster federation, horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and co-location solutions to optimize resource utilization
• Apply ML methodologies to our scheduler to help reduce resource fragmentation, balance hot spot and optimize datacenter power usage.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of working experience
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, e.g., Golang, Python, Rust, Java, C / C++
• Experience working with two or more of the following areas : Unix / Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, developing large scale software systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud-native application or framework development, e.g., OAM, dapr, or vitess
• Experience in one large scale cluster management systems, e.g., Kubernetes, Yarn, or Mesos
• Experience in large scale resources and tasks scheduling development
• Project experience in application scaling, workload co-location, and isolation enhancement
• Experience in container runtime and relevant projects, e.g., Containerd, Kata-Container, gVisor, or x-containers

TikTok 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 TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

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.

TikTok 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.

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