Senior SRE - Data Infrastructure & Reliability

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

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Data Infrastructure in San Jose to keep our large-scale data systems reliable and efficient. You will work on hands-on operations, respond to alerts, manage production changes, and automate routine tasks alongside senior engineers.

The role emphasizes reliability, scale, and cost optimization, with rotations on on-call, collaboration across time zones, and involvement in data center and AI infrastructure efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in a programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) for automation and tool development.
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS), and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Incident response and postmortems for critical production issues with blameless reviews.
• Define and maintain SLOs for critical data services. Manage error budgets to balance reliability work with features.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource management to stay within budget.
• Design automation and AI orchestration to reduce toil and improve safety and efficiency.
• Uphold production operations standards including runbooks, monitoring, and change management for deployments.
• Lead data center and AI infrastructure initiatives to ensure high availability and peak performance.
• Mentor junior SREs and collaborate with other teams across time zones.

Skills

Go

Python

Bash

Linux/Unix

Networking basics

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Flink

Job description

ByteDance is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Data Infrastructure in San Jose to keep our large-scale data systems reliable and efficient. You will work on hands-on operations, respond to alerts, manage production changes, and automate routine tasks alongside senior engineers.

The role emphasizes reliability, scale, and cost optimization, with rotations on on-call, collaboration across time zones, and involvement in data center and AI infrastructure efforts.