Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Incident Mastery

ByteDance; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in Bellevue, WA, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the highest availability of large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. You will design and deploy automation to scale reliability across backend and cloud-native services.

You will measure latency, health, and incident response, performing root cause analysis to guide future product design. Mentoring junior engineers and interns will be part of the role.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field; 2 years of related work experience OR Bachelor's degree with 5 years of post-bachelor’s related work experience.
• 2 years of required experience in: reliability support for critical components; SDLC across backend/cloud native projects; runbooks for alerts/ troubleshooting; data services operations and SLA management; Linux admin including virtualization and containers.

Responsibilities

• Provide site reliability engineering support to ensure highest level of availability of large-scale, fault tolerant systems.
• Deliver tools and software to improve reliability, scalability and operability, including designing, developing and deploying automation to scale with quality.
• Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health.
• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems, performing root cause analysis of incidents to influence future product design and response activities.
• Establish solid design and best practices for engineers as well as non-technical team members.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.

Skills

SRE expertise

Linux administration

SDLC

Incident response

Runbooks

SLA management

Monitoring & observability

Education

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/IS/Data Science/Math

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS/Data Science/Math

Job description

ByteDance in Bellevue, WA, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the highest availability of large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. You will design and deploy automation to scale reliability across backend and cloud-native services.

You will measure latency, health, and incident response, performing root cause analysis to guide future product design. Mentoring junior engineers and interns will be part of the role.