Security Software Engineer - AI & Threat Defense for Scale

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan With Company Match

Paid Parental Leave

Short-term Disability Coverage

Long-term Disability Coverage

Life Insurance

Wellbeing Benefits

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose is seeking a security-focused engineer to build and iterate threat detection, prevention, and response systems for large-scale platforms and AI workloads. You will collaborate across teams to implement scalable, robust defenses for distributed architectures and AI systems.

Responsibilities include designing secure systems, evaluating threat models, and deploying high-performance security solutions using Go, Java, Python, Rust, and C++.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field with strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language and a foundational understanding of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on threat detection, prevention, and response systems for large-scale platforms and critical infrastructure.

Skills

Threat Detection And Response

AI Security

LLM Security

Go

Java

Rust

Python

C++

Distributed Systems

Cloud-native Infrastructure

Algorithms

Data Structures

Operating Systems

Computer Networks

Back-end Development

Secure System Design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field

Job description

ByteDance in San Jose is seeking a security-focused engineer to build and iterate threat detection, prevention, and response systems for large-scale platforms and AI workloads. You will collaborate across teams to implement scalable, robust defenses for distributed architectures and AI systems.

Responsibilities include designing secure systems, evaluating threat models, and deploying high-performance security solutions using Go, Java, Python, Rust, and C++.