Network Engineer, Global BackBone Direction – Seattle

Responsibilities

About ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance’s purpose. Our products are built to help imagination 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.

To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.

About the Team

ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experience in data center networking on a massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, buildout and operation of Bytedance’s Global BBone Network;
• Design the next generation of TE based GBBone network;
• Drive and manage all GBBone buildout projects;
• Lead the Ops of GBBone network for high availability;
• Work with cross-functional teams including, but not limited to SDN, compute, storage, database, recommendation system, and assist the team in driving the innovation and evolution of our network.
• Perform network risk assessment and mitigation, and network change management.
• Manage and drive strategic network vendor engagement and deliveries.
• Coordinate and collaborate with stakeholders from internal and cross-functional teams, to improve network and applications availability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise in large-scale global Backbone network design, build-out and operation.
• Expert level knowledge in TE, Segment Routing, BGP, ISIS and application protocols.
• 3 years of working experience and above.
• Familiar and has extensive working experience with DataCenter, Ex-Network and POP Network
• Cross-team collaboration experiences with multiple teams and vendors in different time zones.
• Ability to carry out hands-on work and high-level, global view planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidates are preferred who have a background in designing, constructing, and operating large-scale global backbone networks, as well as hands-on experience with Data Center, External Network, and Point of Presence (POP) network infrastructures.

About ByteDance

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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