Edge Traffic Engineer: DNS & Global Routing

ByteDance

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 154,000 - 301,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance (short-term and/

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

10 sick days per year

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance’s Edge Traffic Scheduling team in Seattle is seeking engineers to design and build a control system directing traffic using performance- or cost-based routing. You’ll analyze global TikTok routing performance and troubleshoot issues across PoPs and public internet topology.

Join a growing team engineering edge platforms that support CDN caches, live streaming, gaming, and real-time communications.

Qualifications

Master’s degree (or bachelor’s with 3+ years in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related quantitative fields)
Experience with DNS service
Knowledge of networking protocols such as BGP, IP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP, UDP
Experience with networking tools, including ping, mtr, traceroute
Experience with networking metrics, including SNMP, sflow / netflow
Experience with IPDB
Knowledge of HTTP, HTTPS, QUIC

Responsibilities

Design and build a control system that directs traffic following performance-based or cost-based routing strategies
Global TikTok users routing layer performance analysis and troubleshooting
ByteDance internal and external services support on public internet topology and connectivity