ByteDance
Senior Software Engineer - Global Traffic Infrastructure
San Jose, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate global edge traffic infrastructure, delivering cloud-native platform capabilities with a focus on performance, reliability, security, and cost.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure components for global edge PoPs, including Kubernetes/control plane, virtualization/containers, and ingress/gateway.
- Deliver cloud-native features end to end, from requirements and architecture through testing, rollout, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Build observability and troubleshooting capabilities and automate incident response; collaborate with SRE, platform, and product teams.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and backend/system development experience in one or more of Go, C, C++, or Rust.
- Production experience with containers and Kubernetes, including cluster operations, networking, service discovery, ingress/gateway, and rollout strategies.
- Solid understanding and practical experience with cloud-native stack, container/virtualization, and networking.
Nice to have
- Experience with or contributions to cloud-native open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Containerd, or Cilium/eBPF.
- Strong Linux knowledge and production troubleshooting experience; experience with multi-tenant isolation, network security, high-traffic reliability, CDN, Livestream, RTC, or other edge traffic architecture.
Tools
Go, C, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, Containerd, Cilium/eBPF, Linux
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