Responsibilities
- Conduct vulnerability research involving cloud-native platforms, containers, virtualization, operating systems, and distributed systems.
- Perform security reviews of new products, architectures, and infrastructure components.
- Develop AI-powered solutions for vulnerability discovery, security analysis, code review, security automation, and offensive security research.
- Create security standards, best practices, and engineering guidance for infrastructure teams.
- Build internal tools to improve vulnerability detection, security testing, and developer experience.
Requirements
- Be completing or have recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Have a solid understanding of memory corruption, web security, authentication and authorization issues, logic flaws, and other common vulnerability classes.
- Have hands-on experience in vulnerability discovery, security research, penetration testing, or exploit development.
- Have experience with one or more programming languages such as C/C++, Go, Python, Rust, or Java.
- Demonstrate interest in offensive security, infrastructure security, and continuous learning.
- Preferred qualifications include publicly disclosed CVEs, security open-source contributions, security competition achievements, leading security conference publications, LLM or AI-agent experience, cloud and infrastructure security experience, and contributions to security tooling, fuzzers, static analysis, dynamic analysis, or exploit frameworks.
- State availability and graduation date clearly in the resume and commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.
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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.