ByteDance
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure (San Jose)
San Jose, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Keeps large-scale data infrastructure reliable and efficient through incident response, operational automation, capacity management, and production change oversight.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews; define and maintain SLOs and error budgets.
- Plan capacity, tune performance, optimize costs, and improve operational standards, monitoring, and deployment safety.
- Build automation and use AI agents to reduce operational toil; help maintain data centers and specialized AI infrastructure.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, or Bash.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS), and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with large-scale data infrastructure such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, or Flink; production Kubernetes experience.
- Experience leading complex incident response or operating and constructing data centers.
Tools
Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Message Queue, Go, Python, Bash, Kafka
AI focus
Leverage AI agents to eliminate operational toil, improve deployment safety, and enhance operational efficiency; maintain specialized AI infrastructure for AI-driven workloads.
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