Backend Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure / Artifact Management) – Developer Services
ByteDanceResponsibilities
- Design, develop, and evolve large-scale R&D infrastructure for build systems, artifact management, data distribution, and software supply chains.
- Build infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference, including container image builds, artifact distribution, caching, storage, and cross-region data transfer.
- Develop the company-wide ecosystem for Skills, Plugins, and other AI extensions, including versioning, publishing, distribution, evaluation, and governance.
- Apply AI technologies to build domain-specific Agents for troubleshooting, operations, dependency upgrades, risk governance, fault diagnosis, and automated remediation.
- Architect and optimize distributed systems for throughput, reliability, observability, and developer experience while driving complex projects through adoption at scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, with experience designing and building large-scale backend systems.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java, C++, Python, or Rust, with strong computer science fundamentals and engineering skills.
- Familiarity with distributed systems and hands-on experience in areas such as storage, computing, task scheduling, caching, messaging, observability, or reliability engineering.
- Strong problem-solving, system design, execution, communication, collaboration, and project-driving abilities.
- Preferred: experience with DevOps, CI/CD, build systems, artifact repositories, cloud-native technologies, software supply chain security, AI Agents, RAG, tool use, MCP/Skills, AI evaluation, AI observability, or globally distributed systems.
About ByteDance
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.