Global SRE: Core Data Center & Service Reliability

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a self-motivated system engineer with an SRE mindset to manage large-scale Linux host infrastructure across non-China data centers. You will own deployment architectures, fleet health, and core services like DNS, NTP, DHCP, and Kerberos.

Collaborate with network and security teams to meet evolving business demands while driving reliability improvements through SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors.
• Solid experience managing large-scale Linux hosts, OS deployment, configuration management, patching, and fleet operations.
• Hands-on knowledge of core data center services: DNS (BIND/PowerDNS), NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository management, and Kerberos.
• Proficiency with DevOps tooling and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with SRE principles, SLO/SLI, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems.
• Understanding of high-availability design patterns and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain large-scale host infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China data centers, including OS lifecycle management, configuration standardization, and fleet health monitoring.
• Own reliability and availability of core data center services such as DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository, and Kerberos authentication.
• Design and implement deployment architectures for foundational services with high availability, fault tolerance, and multi-region disaster recovery.
• Develop and enforce SLOs for managed services; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems to drive reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with network, security, and application teams to meet evolving business demands.
• Identify automation opportunities across host management and service operations; drive tooling and process improvements to reduce toil and increase efficiency.

Skills

SRE mindset

DevOps

Linux administration

Incident response

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors

Tools

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

CI/CD pipelines

DNS

NTP

Kerberos

Job description

ByteDance is seeking a self-motivated system engineer with an SRE mindset to manage large-scale Linux host infrastructure across non-China data centers. You will own deployment architectures, fleet health, and core services like DNS, NTP, DHCP, and Kerberos.

Collaborate with network and security teams to meet evolving business demands while driving reliability improvements through SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems.