Senior Software Engineer, Metadata Storage – Distributed Systems

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

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.