Global Backbone Network Architect | TBps Scale & AI Traffic

ByteDance

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 242,000 - 456,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Life and disability coverage

Job summary

ByteDance’s Global Network Infrastructure architecture team seeks a seasoned network architect to design and scale the worldwide backbone, including non-China networks and international interconnections. You will shape topology, routing, and policy to support data centers, cloud services, and AI initiatives across the globe.

You will lead capacity planning, traffic engineering, and testing of new equipment, collaborating with supply chain, operations, and global teams.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, communication or related majors.
Over 5 years of experience in architecture design, operation and maintenance of backbone networks, ISP networks, operator networks or large-scale data center networks.
Proficient in routing and traffic scheduling technologies including BGP, IS-IS, SR-MPLS, SRTE, SRv6, sBFD, MPLS VPN, SDN, etc.
In-depth understanding of the backbone network traffic engineering, QoS, network monitoring and fault location systems.
Familiar with mainstream devices such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, H3C, Huawei etc.
Understand transmission infrastructures such as OTN/DWDM, submarine cables, and international interconnection.
Possess excellent cross-team communication skills and project promotion capabilities, and have a good command of English as a working language, with experience collaborating with non-China teams.

Responsibilities

Network architecture design, capacity planning and evolution of the global backbone network and non-China backbone network.
Design backbone topology, routing protocol design and policy planning to ensure scalability and high availability.
Traffic engineering, load balancing and QoS design to optimize latency, packet loss and bandwidth usage.
Testing and introduction of new technologies, organization of network testing and pilots.
Plan transmission and interconnection solutions such as PoP and submarine cables, coordinating with supply chain and operations teams for implementation.
Promote innovation and standardization, stay updated on SRv6 and AI-driven traffic engineering.