Senior Software Engineer: Agentic Search & Data

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

10 holidays, sick days, and PTO

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance our Data Agent and Agentic Search platform. You will contribute to planning, retrieval, reasoning, and tool execution across multi-source data, shaping next-gen search for GenAI workflows.

You’ll work on distributed systems, memory and tool integration, and collaborate with the broader OpenSearch/Elasticsearch ecosystem while delivering robust, scalable search services for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong coding, data structures and algorithms; proficient in Python, Java, C++, or Golang.
• Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, Search, RAG, or Machine Learning.
• Strong problem-solving, learning, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build Agentic Search and Analytics systems that combine planning, retrieval, reasoning, tool execution, and iterative agentic loops.
• Develop multi-source and multimodal search across structured data, documents, images, audio, and video.
• Build a unified semantic layer for heterogeneous enterprise data, including entities, metrics, metadata, and relationships.
• Explore semantic accumulation and self-evolving agents that improve through interactions, memory, and history.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Golang

LLMs & Agents

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Milvus

Faiss

Qdrant

Job description

ByteDance in San Jose is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance our Data Agent and Agentic Search platform. You will contribute to planning, retrieval, reasoning, and tool execution across multi-source data, shaping next-gen search for GenAI workflows.

You’ll work on distributed systems, memory and tool integration, and collaborate with the broader OpenSearch/Elasticsearch ecosystem while delivering robust, scalable search services for enterprise customers.