Senior Software Engineer- Metadata Storage

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 212,800 - 387,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose seeks a Senior Software Engineer- Metadata Storage to design, develop and operate ultra-performance metadata services. You will lead features like distributed coordination, locking, and service discovery, while delivering robust deployments in virtualized and bare-metal environments.

The role requires deep knowledge of distributed systems, consensus protocols, and strong C/C++ skills, with collaboration across compute, storage, and AI teams for scalable architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong coding skills in C / C++.
• Deep understanding of consensus protocols including Raft, Paxos, ZAB.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate ultra-performance metadata services, delivering key features including distributed coordination, distributed locking, metadata key-value storage, service discovery, etc.
• Develop automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.
• Provide metadata solutions for teams in technical infrastructure areas and upper-layer business areas, driving cross-team collaborations for system architecture design and optimization for various business use cases.

Skills

C / C++

Distributed systems

Consensus protocols

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

ZooKeeper

Etcd

NVMe

SPDK/DPDK

TCP/UDP

RDMA

Job description

Senior Software Engineer- Metadata Storage

Location: San Jose

Team: Technology

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A41859

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate ultra-performance metadata services, delivering key features including distributed coordination, distributed locking, metadata key-value storage, service discovery, etc.
• Develop automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.
• Provide metadata solutions for teams in technical infrastructure areas (compute, storage, databases, etc.) and upper-layer business areas (advertising, payments, AI, etc.), driving cross-team collaborations for system architecture design and optimization for various business use cases.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.
• Strong coding skills in C / C++.
• Deep understanding of consensus protocols including Raft, Paxos, ZAB, etc.
• Hands‑on experience with large‑scale distributed systems; capability of troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Rust.
• Experience maintaining and contributing to open source projects including ZooKeeper, Etcd, etc.
• Experience with compute / storage / network tech stacks, including Kubernetes, NVMe, SPDK/DPDK, TCP/UDP, RDMA.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212,800 - $387,600 annually.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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, among others. 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).

Legal Notice (Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance)

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.

Reasonable Accommodation

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