Global CDN Scheduling & Optimization Engineer

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

ByteDance's Global Engineering CDN team is hiring graduates to design, build, and operate a high-availability multi-cloud CDN platform that powers TikTok and other products. You will engage in software development and production operations across global regions, contributing to domain onboarding, configuration management, and traffic optimization.

Onboarding by year-end is required. The role emphasizes hands-on experience with distributed systems, large-scale traffic management, and cost

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or a related discipline.
• Familiar with at least one programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C/C++.
• Solid foundation in data structures, operating systems, computer networks, and databases.
• Basic understanding of Internet technologies such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, caching, traffic routing, or Linux.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and interest in large-scale traffic systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development and optimization of the global Multi-Cloud CDN scheduling platform.
• Build traffic optimization mechanisms across self-built CDN infrastructure and commercial CDN vendors to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to cost optimization projects for self-built CDN and multi-cloud CDN traffic.
• Build and improve metrics, monitoring, and analysis tools for resource consumption, origin traffic, bandwidth usage, cache efficiency, service quality, and cost optimization.
• Participate in traffic analysis, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of scheduling stability and traffic efficiency.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C/C++

Data structures

Operating systems

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Job description

ByteDance's Global Engineering CDN team is hiring graduates to design, build, and operate a high-availability multi-cloud CDN platform that powers TikTok and other products. You will engage in software development and production operations across global regions, contributing to domain onboarding, configuration management, and traffic optimization.

Onboarding by year-end is required. The role emphasizes hands-on experience with distributed systems, large-scale traffic management, and cost