Site Reliability Engineer, Machine Learning Systems - Singapore

BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in Singapore is seeking a Machine Learning System Engineer to join their Large Model Team. This role involves developing high-performance ML systems and ensuring their efficiency in large model deployment and resource management. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, with hands-on experience in programming, Kubernetes, and containers. This position offers a positive team atmosphere, opportunities for career growth, and paid leave.

Benefits

Positive team atmosphere

Career growth opportunity

Paid leave

Flat organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python, or Shell.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ML systems operate efficiently for large model deployment.
• Maintain stability of offline tasks in multi-region scenarios.
• Manage resources and plan costs, including computing and storage.

Skills

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Python

Kubernetes experience

Containers skills

Linux environment experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Job description

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Job highlights

• Positive team atmosphere
• Career growth opportunity
• Paid leave
• Flat organization

Responsibilities

The ByteDance Large Model Team is committed to developing the most advanced AI large model technology in the industry, becoming a world-class research team, and contributing to technological and social development. The Large Model Team has a long-term vision and determination in the field of AI, with research directions covering NLP, CV, speech, and other areas. Relying on the abundant data and computing resources of the platform, the team has continued to invest in relevant fields and has launched its own general large model, providing multi-modal capabilities.

The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and inference system/services around the world, providing high-performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI.

In our team, you'll have the opportunity to build the large scale heterogeneous system integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep it running steadily and reliably, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis and distributed system, and be involved in the decision-making process. You'll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China and Singapore working collaboratively towards unified project direction.

• Responsible for ensuring our ML systems are operating and running efficiently for large model deployment, training, evaluation, and inference
• Responsible for the stability of offline tasks/services in multi-data center, multi-region, and multi-cloud scenarios
• Responsible for resource management and planning, cost and budget, including computing and storage resources
• Responsible for global system disaster recovery, cluster machine governance, stability of business services, resource utilisation improvement and operation efficiency improvement
• Build software tools, products and systems to monitor and manage the mL infrastructure and services efficiently
• Be part of the global team roster that ensures system and business on-call support

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, computer engineering or related fields;
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go/Python/Shell in Linux environment;
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and containers skills, and have more than 1 year of relevant operation and maintenance experience;

Preferred Qualifications

• Engage in the operation and maintenance of large-scale ML distributed system;
• Experience in operation and maintenance of GPU servers;
• Possess excellent logical analysis ability, able to reasonably abstract and split business logic, a strong sense of responsibility, good learning ability, communication ability, self-driven and good team spirit;
• Have good documentation principles and habits to be able to write and update workflow and technical documentation as required on time.