ByteDance
Senior Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Databases
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience in system or database internals programming is preferred.
- Education
- BS or a higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related fields is preferred.
About the job
Build and maintain cloud-native database products and core database system functionality for ByteDance’s global infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and develop database features and related tools; test performance, scalability, and product quality.
- Debug defects, perform root-cause analysis, and participate in releases, deployments, and on-call rotation.
- Collaborate across teams to solve complex cloud infrastructure problems and keep services operational and highly available.
What they ask for
- Experience with query processing, including execution and optimization, transaction management, storage management, and backup and restore.
- Experience building a large-scale, high-performance database platform; storage systems and distributed systems experience.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Go, or Java.
- Knowledge of Linux shell and scripting languages such as Python.
Nice to have
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- MySQL/PostgreSQL software development experience.
Tools
C/C++, Go, Java, Linux shell, Python, rocksdb, ETCD, Zookeeper
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