Site Reliability Engineer Graduate (Traffic Architecture) - 2027 Start

About the role

ByteDance is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer Graduate (Traffic Architecture) for a 2027 start. The team builds and operates large-scale, distributed infrastructure for traffic services, applying SRE principles to keep them reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective. Graduates will work on traffic systems serving hyperscale datacenters and public clouds, and a global load balancer handling Tbps of traffic, including Layer 4 load balancing, Layer 4/7 acceleration, global ingress, CMAF, FaaS and WAF.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop features of traffic software (DNS Server, L4 and L7 Proxy, Web Caching, FaaS Runtime) and integrate them into the traffic platform to process terabyte-scale data in real time.
• Build data pipelines and telemetry systems to support data-driven traffic control.
• Develop API acceleration and other networking services running on the multi-cloud traffic platform.
• Solve problems and tune performance for online traffic.
• Research new technologies for more efficient and scalable traffic processing.

Required profile

• Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Ability to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year; availability and graduation date should be stated in the resume.
• Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Required skills

• Experience developing network systems in Rust, C, C++ and/or Go, with Linux skills.
• Familiarity with TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS and DNS, and microservice architecture.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Preferred: experience with large-scale cloud network services (AWS, GCP, OCI), high-performance load balancers, proxy software such as Nginx and Envoy, web caching software, edge computing and FaaS runtime, and newer protocols such as HTTP/2, HTTP3/QUIC and TLS 1.3.