Global Edge Cloud Engineer - Traffic Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a senior platform engineer to join the Global Traffic Infrastructure team. You will help build and scale the edge cloud and global traffic platform powering TikTok's services, focusing on edge resource orchestration, traffic scheduling, cloud governance, and platform automation.

The role emphasizes high scalability, cost efficiency, and global service stability for billions of users, with responsibilities spanning architecture, resource operations, and incident management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Communications, or related fields, with minimum 3 years of hands-on R&D experience in cloud platform, cloud-native, or edge infrastructure domains.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, with deep mastery of Linux system internals, process/memory/network models, and core networking principles including TCP/IP, virtual networking, and load balancing.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go/C++/Python, with proven experience in large-scale backend or infrastructure development.
• In-depth expertise in Kubernetes core architecture and component principles, with a track record of large-scale cluster optimization.
• Familiarity with mainstream virtualization and container technologies, including working knowledge of KVM/QEMU, Virtio, container isolation, and image management underlying mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native observability stacks; practical exposure to Prometheus, Grafana, logging pipelines, and distributed tracing systems is highly preferred.
• Strong architectural thinking and incident root-cause analysis capabilities, with the ability to independently own complex module design, technical problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead core R&D and architecture iteration of the company's traffic infrastructure platform, covering underlying modules including business governance, orchestration & scheduling, and resource management, to support unified management and elastic delivery of global cloud resources.
• Build a full-lifecycle resource operations management platform spanning resource planning, provisioning, sales, runtime, and billing. Continuously optimize resource utilization and delivery efficiency, drive cost optimization, and ensure business resource competitiveness and customer cost-effectiveness.
• Refine core business pipelines, polish domain models and engineering workflows, and design secure, robust systems aligned with business requirements and architectural characteristics.
• Own on-call incident troubleshooting, performance bottleneck resolution, and capacity planning to guarantee year-round high availability of the cloud platform and stable iteration of core business workloads.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Kubernetes

Linux fundamentals

Networking (TCP/IP)

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Engineering/related

Tools

KVM/QEMU

Virtio

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

ByteDance is seeking a senior platform engineer to join the Global Traffic Infrastructure team. You will help build and scale the edge cloud and global traffic platform powering TikTok's services, focusing on edge resource orchestration, traffic scheduling, cloud governance, and platform automation.

The role emphasizes high scalability, cost efficiency, and global service stability for billions of users, with responsibilities spanning architecture, resource operations, and incident management.