Responsibilities
- Respond to, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents while serving as incident commander for critical events.
- Lead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets for critical data services.
- Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, resource management, and infrastructure cost optimization.
- Design automation and AI-agent workflows to reduce operational toil and improve deployment safety.
- Maintain production standards, including runbooks, monitoring, alerting, change management, and deployment readiness reviews.
- Construct, maintain, and optimize data centers and specialized AI infrastructure.
- Advise application and infrastructure teams on reliability and mentor junior SREs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, or Bash.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems, TCP/IP, DNS, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems.
- Preferred experience managing large-scale data infrastructure such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Flink.
- Preferred production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Preferred expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Preferred experience leading incident response for complex, high-impact events and operating or constructing data centers.
Benefits
- Rotational on-call schedule providing nonstop coverage for critical data infrastructure.
- Collaboration across multiple time zones with opportunities to work alongside senior engineers.
- Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure technologies, SRE practices, large-scale data systems, and AI infrastructure.
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About ByteDance
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