Network Implementation Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, build, and operate our global hyperscale network supporting TikTok's vast user base.

You will work with cross-functional teams to manage backbone and data center networking, test and verify with vendors, and participate in on-call rotations. Travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 3+ years of work experience.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS and MPLS technologies.
• Familiar with data center network architecture (e.g., CLOS).
• Hands-on experience with major network devices (Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Huawei).
• Team player with ByteDance network on-call rotation experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate and optimize ByteDance's global network, including backbone, data center, public cloud and Edge/CDN.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive network innovation and evolution.
• Work with external vendors and ISPs for devices and carrier selection, testing and verification.
• Travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

OSPF/IS-IS

MPLS

DHCP

Network monitoring (SNMP, Sflow/netflo

Telemetry

CLOS architecture

Cisco devices

Arista devices

Juniper devices

H3C/Huawei devices

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Cisco devices

Arista devices

Juniper devices

H3C devices

Huawei devices

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team The 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 Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

The Networking is responsible for designing, 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 software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale.

• Design, build, operate and optimize ByteDance's global network, including backbone, data center, public cloud and Edge/CDN.
• Work with cross-functional teams including but not limited to compute, storage, database, recommendation system, drive the innovation and evolution of ByteDance network.
• Work with external vendors and ISPs for devices and carrier selection, perform testing and verification.
• Travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on three or more years of work experience
• Good understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS and MPLS related technologies.
• Good understanding of network monitoring protocols and tools, such as SNMP, Sflow/netflow, Telemetry.
• Familiar with data center network architecture, such as CLOS.
• Hands-on experience of major network devices, such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Huawei and other mainstream vendors.
• Team player and participated in ByteDance network global on call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of network protocols and implementation in hyperscale data center networks.
• In-depth knowledge of MPLS related Traffic Engineering technologies, such as Segment Routing, RSVP, and LDP etc.
• In-depth knowledge of public cloud architecture, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Ali Cloud, OCI, etc.
• Familiar with mainstream commercial switch/router chipsets, such as Broadcom, Barefoot etc.
• Good understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 co-existence technologies.
• Programming/scripting in Python or other languages.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $387600 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.