Senior Cloud SRE Lead: Global Infra & Automation

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 242,000 - 456,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

ByteDance seeks a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate its global, large-scale infrastructure across public and private clouds. You will develop automation tools, monitoring, and AMI standardization to streamline operations and ensure compliance across environments.

The role involves on-call rotations addressing incidents across cloud, OS, network, and performance, with a focus on improving the full infrastructure lifecycle from ideation to deployment and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Linux operations, SRE, or DevOps.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, or C++, with solid engineering capabilities in platform development, system tooling, and automation.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, with deep understanding of Linux OS principles, computer networks, storage systems, GPU systems, and databases, along with systematic troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Familiar with core reliability practices, including monitoring and alerting, capacity management, change management, canary/gray releases, incident response, and postmortem processes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to proactively identify problems, drive cross-team execution, and demonstrate strong ownership and results-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale, and operate ByteDance's global infrastructure, including large-scale systems spanning public and private clouds.
• Develop tools, automation frameworks, visualizations, and monitoring systems to streamline operations and drive optimization of global infrastructure.
• Create, manage, and standardize cloud AMIs/images for use across multiple environments, ensuring strict alignment with the company's global compliance standards.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, engaging in technical operations and on-call rotations to address incidents related to cloud, OS, network, performance, and reliability.
• Drive improvements across the entire infrastructure lifecycle, from ideation and design through development, deployment, user support, and continuous refinement.

Skills

Linux operations

SRE

Go

Python

C++

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

KVM/QEMU

Cloud platforms (OCI/AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

ByteDance seeks a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate its global, large-scale infrastructure across public and private clouds. You will develop automation tools, monitoring, and AMI standardization to streamline operations and ensure compliance across environments.

The role involves on-call rotations addressing incidents across cloud, OS, network, and performance, with a focus on improving the full infrastructure lifecycle from ideation to deployment and support.