ByteDance
Network Engineer, Backbone Engineering
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Plans, builds, operates, and optimizes ByteDance’s global backbone network, coordinating with engineering and operations teams to maintain availability and restore services during failures.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, operate, and optimize the global backbone network.
- Work with architecture, SDN, and tools teams to improve scalability, resource utilization, buildout efficiency, and operations.
- Support incident response, mitigation, and service restoration with the NOC; travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP, and MPLS-related technologies.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating WANs using mainstream-vendor devices.
- Self-motivated, with good communication and written skills.
Nice to have
- In-depth knowledge of backbone traffic engineering technologies, QoS, or controller-based SDN.
- Programming or scripting in Python or other languages.
Tools
TCP/IP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Python
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