Senior Backend Engineer – Scalable Infra & Reliability

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in Singapore is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to shape and secure the performance of our core infrastructure. You will tackle scale challenges, implement reliability standards, and collaborate with development teams to drive robust, automated operations.

The role emphasizes system design, monitoring frameworks, cost-aware optimization, and data protection, with opportunities to mentor others and own end-to-end improvements across Storage, Compute, and DB layers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Solid knowledge of Linux OS, storage, networking, and related principles.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, Go, Java). Design patterns and coding principles understanding.

Responsibilities

• Reliability: Ensure core infrastructure reliability and stability; set up SOPs and standards.
• Troubleshoot and identify root causes; perform capacity planning and high availability transformations.
• Efficiency: Build automated operation tools for large-scale systems; partner with development teams for iteration.
• Design and implement monitoring frameworks and SOA governance for automated operations.
• Cost: Build delivery standards and budget systems to optimize cloud and hardware costs.
• Compliance: Design data protection plans and IDC infrastructure to meet standards.

Skills

Linux

Distributed Systems

Python/Go/Java

Monitoring & Alerting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis

MySQL

Kafka

Job description

ByteDance in Singapore is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to shape and secure the performance of our core infrastructure. You will tackle scale challenges, implement reliability standards, and collaborate with development teams to drive robust, automated operations.

The role emphasizes system design, monitoring frameworks, cost-aware optimization, and data protection, with opportunities to mentor others and own end-to-end improvements across Storage, Compute, and DB layers.