Senior Global Backbone Network Architect

ByteDance

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 254,000 - 588,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

ByteDance is seeking an experienced Network Infrastructure Architect to design and evolve our global backbone network, including non-China backbones and international interconnections. You will shape topology, routing, traffic engineering and testing of new technologies across a multinational environment.

You will coordinate with supply chain, construction, and operations teams, ensuring high availability, low latency, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, communication or related majors.
Over 5 years of experience in architecture design, operation and maintenance of backbone networks, ISP networks, operator networks or large-scale data center networks.
Proficient in routing and traffic scheduling technologies including BGP, IS-IS, SR-MPLS, SRTE, SRv6, sBFD, MPLS VPN, SDN, etc.
In-depth understanding of backbone network traffic engineering, QoS, network monitoring and fault location system.
Familiar with mainstream devices such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, H3C, Huawei etc.
Understand transmission infrastructures such as OTN/DWDM, submarine cables, and international interconnection.
Possess excellent cross-team communication skills and project promotion capabilities, and good command of English as a working language, with experience collaborating with non-China teams.

Responsibilities

Network architecture design, capacity planning and architecture evolution of the global backbone network and non-China backbone network, and network architecture designs;
Responsible for backbone network topology design, routing protocol design (BGP/IS-IS/OSPF/SR) and policy planning to ensure the scalability and high availability of the network;
Responsible for backbone network traffic engineering, load balancing and QoS design, and continuously optimize latency, packet loss and bandwidth utilization;
Responsible for the testing, new technologies introduction (such as routing and switching equipment), as well as the organization of network testing and pilot;
Responsible for planning transmission and interconnection solutions such as PoP and submarine cables, and coordinate with supply chain, construction, operation and maintenance teams for implementation;
Closely follow up on industry frontiers (such as SRv6 and AI-driven traffic engineering), and promote technological innovation and standardization of the backbone network architecture.