ByteDance
Senior Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure (Orchestration & Scheduling)
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience; Ph.D. degree and strong publication records can be an exception.
- Education
- B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related area; Ph.D. degree and strong publication records can be an exception.
About the job
Build and optimize ByteDance’s global compute infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based cluster management, unified scheduling, and platforms for AI/ML and LLM workloads.
What you'll do
- Enhance large-scale Kubernetes cluster platforms for performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Design and maintain unified scheduling for diverse workloads and resource pools.
- Develop AI-model-based scheduling and compute platforms for efficient ML/LLM training and inference.
What they ask for
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related area; Ph.D. with strong publication records may be an exception.
- Solid understanding of at least one stated systems field, such as Unix/Linux, distributed and parallel systems, high-performance networking, or large-scale software systems.
- Experience designing, architecting, and building cloud or ML infrastructure, including resource management, allocation, job scheduling, or monitoring.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes, and proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, C++, Rust, or Java.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale cluster management systems such as Kubernetes, Ray, Yarn, or Mesos.
- Experience in resource efficiency management, job scheduling, application scaling, workload co-location, or isolation; public cloud and ML services experience is also noted.
Tools
Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, Yarn, Mesos, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
Use AI models to optimize workload performance and resource utilization; build compute platforms for ML and LLM training and inference.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative