Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS)

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 202,160 - 368,220; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

10 sick days per year

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Relational Database Service (RDS) in Seattle. You will build and own database platforms across a global infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scaling, and advanced data services.

You will work in an open, collaborative environment, driving RDS features, performance improvements, and robust testing. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits accompany this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer-related fields.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in Golang or Python with good coding practices and unit testing.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks and tools (Django, Flask, Gin, Kitex).
• Preferred: microservices architecture, service discovery, load balancing, RPC frameworks, and distributed config.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own database products for a global cloud platform.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of database services.
• Collaborate with PMs to design RDS features and timelines.
• Design core components like instance management, monitoring, and backup/restore.
• Conduct performance tests and contribute to release/deployment.

Skills

Golang

Python

RESTful API

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's/Master in CS/related

Tools

Django

Flask

Gin

Kitex

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

HBase

ClickHouse

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS)

Location: Seattle

Overview

Join ByteDance’s database development team, where you’ll build and own cutting‑edge database products supporting ByteDance’s global infrastructure. Our diverse portfolio includes relational databases, distributed caches, key‑value stores, document databases, graph databases, wide‑column stores, search engines, and multi‑model databases. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance these services in a cloud‑native environment, embracing a culture of intellectual curiosity, self‑direction, and problem‑solving.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll work in an open, agile, and highly collaborative environment in the following areas.

• Database and system administration, ensuring the reliability and observability of databases in a global large‑scale network and efficiently handling user requests.
• Providing efficient and stable database platform services, including node scaling, high availability, backup/recovery, and database monitoring.
• Disaster recovery and high availability, including global cross‑region database disaster recovery solutions, providing efficient and rapid high‑availability switching capabilities and data consistency guarantees.
• Partner closely with Product Managers (PMs) to develop RDS features (e.g., database operation tickets, backup/restore, scaling, high availability); drive cross‑team collaboration to ensure aligned execution and timely delivery of RDS products.
• Design and develop the RDS platform and core components (e.g., database instance management, resource lifecycle management, monitoring & alerting modules, backup/restore systems) based on business scenarios and user demands; implement high‑performance, reliable, and secure database service capabilities, including but not limited to automated deployment, elastic scaling, fault self‑healing, and data consistency guarantees; enhance system scalability to support millions of database instances and high concurrent access.
• Conduct performance and scalability tests and research innovative ideas for improvement.
• Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional and system‑test for product quality.
• Participate in the release and deployment process.
• Solve unique, large‑scale, highly complex cloud infrastructure problems.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor/Master degree in computer‑related fields; at least 2 years of software development experience; proficiency in one or more general‑purpose programming languages such as Golang or Python; demonstrated good coding practices, code cleanliness, refactoring skills, and experience with unit testing.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks and tools such as Django, Flask, Gin, Kitex, etc.; familiarity with database management and internal implementation mechanisms.
• Preferred: Familiar with core web development technologies: HTTP protocol, RESTful API design specifications, JSON/Protobuf data serialization, and middleware development.
• Preferred: Experience with microservice architecture; knowledge of service discovery (Consul/Nacos), load balancing, RPC frameworks (Kitex/Go‑Micro/gRPC), and distributed configuration centers.
• Preferred: Experience with database kernel/middleware/platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, HBase, ClickHouse, etc.).
• Preferred: Strong motivation for technology, excellent communication skills, teamwork spirit, and strong problem‑analysis and problem‑solving skills.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in Seattle is $202,160 – $368,220 annually.

Benefits

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, and more. 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).

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.

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:

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