Cloud SRE Tech Lead - Global Infra & Automation

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 244,800 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose seeks a Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate a global infrastructure spanning public and private clouds. You’ll drive automation, create AMIs, and guide incident response in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead improvements across the full lifecycle, contribute to Cloud Host Delivery, Operation, and Security groups, and partner with cross‑functional teams. A strong background in Linux, networking, GPUs, and cloud-native tech is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Linux operations, SRE, or DevOps.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or C++, with strong automation skills.
• Deep understanding of Linux OS, networks, storage, GPUs, databases, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, capacity, change, canary releases, incidents, postmortems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ownership mindset.
• Preferred: experience with public clouds (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with image/AMI systems, resource scheduling, virtualization (KVM/QEMU).
• Knowledge of containers and cloud-native ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, containerd).
• GPU clusters: drivers, CUDA, MIG, topology, stress testing, delivery pipelines.
• Proven reliability initiatives: failure drills, capacity governance, observability, cost optimization.
• Open-source contributions or patents highly regarded.
• Experience operating large-scale production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale, and operate ByteDance’s global infrastructure spanning public and private clouds.
• Develop tools, automation frameworks, visualizations, and monitoring to optimize operations.
• Create and manage cloud AMIs/images across environments with strict compliance.
• Engage in fast-paced on-call rotations addressing incidents in cloud, OS, network, and performance.
• Lead improvements across the full infrastructure lifecycle from ideation to deployment and support.
• Contribute to subgroups: Cloud Host Delivery – Delivery & Standardization; Cloud Host Operation – Efficiency & Reliability; Cloud Management & Security.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Linux basics

Networking basics

Troubleshooting

Communication

On-call/Incidents

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

containerd

KVM/QEMU

AWS

OCI

Git

Job description

ByteDance in San Jose seeks a Tech Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate a global infrastructure spanning public and private clouds. You’ll drive automation, create AMIs, and guide incident response in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead improvements across the full lifecycle, contribute to Cloud Host Delivery, Operation, and Security groups, and partner with cross‑functional teams. A strong background in Linux, networking, GPUs, and cloud-native tech is required.