Software Engineer, Messaging Middleware Infrastructure

About the role

The messaging middleware team explores and advances a messaging platform, overseeing the message queue systems for products such as ByteDance and others, handling data scales that set an industry standard. The team independently created the BMQ message queue, using a storage and computing architecture separation and ensuring compatibility with the Kafka protocol. It also investigates new business scenarios, such as extracting value from original log data and integrating with batch computing engines.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the messaging platform
• Develop the next-generation computing and storage separation architecture for a trillion-level messaging platform
• Optimize costs, improve stability and performance of the system
• Analyze business requirements and expand the features of the messaging platform

Required profile

• Proficient software developer skilled in at least one general-purpose language such as C/C++, Go or Python
• Familiarity with operating systems, networks and computer architecture
• Experience building large-scale, high-performance, highly available distributed systems
• Experience in system performance analysis and optimization

Required skills

• Familiarity with at least one MQ system or similar (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, RocketMQ, Pulsar)
• Knowledge of distributed messaging and streaming platforms