Network Engineer, Global BackBone

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

ByteDance infrastructure networking team is seeking a skilled network engineer to design, operate, and optimize the global backbone. You will work across continents to ensure high availability and performance for major apps like TikTok.

This role collaborates with architecture, SDN, and tools teams, requires travel up to 15-30%, and values hands-on WAN experience with Cisco/Arista/Juniper/Nokia gear.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP and MPLS technologies.
• Hands-on WAN design, build and operation with major vendor devices.
• Self-motivated with good communication and written skills.

Responsabilidades

• Plan, design, implement, operate and optimize ByteDance's global backbone network across continents.
• Collaborate with network architecture, SDN, and tools platforms to improve scalability and efficiency.
• Work with team members across time zones to ensure continuous global network operations.
• Partner with NOC to support day-to-day operations, incidents, mitigation and restoration.
• Travel may be required up to 15%–30%.

Conocimientos

TCP/IP

OSPF/IS-IS

BGP

MPLS

Network design

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Written communication

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Herramientas

Cisco gear

Arista hardware

Juniper gear

Nokia gear

Descripción del empleo

Join us as we work together to inspire creativity and enrich life around the globe.

About the Team

ByteDance infrastructure networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.ByteDance infrastructure networking is responsible for planning, building and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable network experience in multiple technological domains on a global scale.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, implement, operate and optimize ByteDance's global backbone network across all major continents.
• Collaborate with network architecture, SDN, tools platform teams to improve network scalability, resource utilization, buildout efficiency and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with team members across multiple time zones to ensure continuous global network operations.
• Partner with the NOC team to support the day-to-day operations of the global backbone network infrastructure, including responding to network incidents alerts, mitigation, and service restoration during network failures.
• Travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.

Minimum Qualification(s)

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Good understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP and MPLS related technologies.
• Hands-on experience with designing, building and operating wide area network (WAN) using devices from mainstream vendors, such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Nokia, etc.
• Self-motivated, good communication and written skills.

Preferred Qualification(s)

• In-depth knowledge and skill of backbone traffic engineering technologies, such as RSVP-TE, SRTE-MPLS and SRv6 etc.
• In-depth knowledge of quality-of-service (QoS) technologies and implementations on wide area network.
• Good understanding of controller-based software-defined networking.
• Programming/scripting in Python or other languages.

Job Information

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request