Global Data Center SRE: Reliability & Automation

BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance's Global System Service team powers data center infrastructure outside China, managing OS deployment, fleet health, and centralized configuration across multiple regions. We seek a self-motivated system engineer with an SRE mindset to own reliability of DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, and Kerberos, design HA deployments, and lead post-mortems to drive continuous improvement.

Join us to partner with network, security, and application teams, automate host management, and reduce toil at scale in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors.
• Experience in large-scale Linux host management and OS lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of core data center services: DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repo, Kerberos.
• Proficiency with DevOps tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLO/SLI, error budgets, and post-mortems.
• Understanding of HA design patterns and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshooting across Linux and network layers.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain large-scale host infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China data centers, covering OS lifecycle management, configuration standardization, and fleet-wide health monitoring.
• Own the reliability and availability of core data center foundational services, including DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository, and Kerberos authentication.
• Design and implement deployment architectures for foundational services, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across regions.
• Develop and enforce SLOs for managed services; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews to drive continuous reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with network, security, and application teams to ensure foundational services meet the evolving demands of global business growth.
• Identify automation opportunities across host management and service operations; drive tooling and process improvements to reduce toil and increase operational efficiency.

Skills

Linux host management

SRE principles

DevOps tooling

DNS/NTP/DHCP/NAT

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/CS or related

Tools

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Job description

ByteDance's Global System Service team powers data center infrastructure outside China, managing OS deployment, fleet health, and centralized configuration across multiple regions. We seek a self-motivated system engineer with an SRE mindset to own reliability of DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, and Kerberos, design HA deployments, and lead post-mortems to drive continuous improvement.

Join us to partner with network, security, and application teams, automate host management, and reduce toil at scale in a