ByteDance
Network Engineer -Operations
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Three or more years of work experience may qualify as experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree; no other years requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on three or more years of work experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, operates, and optimizes ByteDance’s global network infrastructure across backbone, data centers, public cloud, and Edge/CDN.
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and optimize the global network.
- Collaborate with internal teams to evolve network infrastructure and work with vendors and ISPs on device and carrier selection, testing, and verification.
- Participate in the global network on-call rotation; travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.
What they ask for
- Understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, and MPLS-related technologies.
- Understanding of network monitoring protocols and tools, such as SNMP, Sflow/netflow, and Telemetry; familiarity with CLOS data center architecture.
- Hands-on experience with major network devices, including Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Huawei, or other mainstream vendors.
- Bachelor’s in a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on three or more years of work experience.
Nice to have
- In-depth knowledge of hyperscale data center networking, MPLS traffic engineering, public cloud architecture, or IPv4/IPv6 technologies.
- Familiarity with mainstream commercial switch/router chipsets; programming or scripting in Python or other languages.
Tools
TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS, SNMP, Sflow/netflow, Telemetry
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative