Network Engineer, Optical Transport Network

Responsibilities

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 experiences in data center networking at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Implement, set up, and maintain a wide-scale operational optical network covering regional metropolitan areas. This network connects data centers and Points of Presence (POP) locations globally.
• Responsible for high level and low level design, road-map and standardisation of ByteDance’s OTN
• Responsible for OTN automation and architecture optimisation
• Improve OTN availability and efficiency

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a closely related technical field, or a comparable amount of hands-on experience.
• 2 years hands-on experience of major OTN devices, such as Ciena, Nokia, Infinera etc.
• Knowledge on optical transportation, OTN solution, system design, architecture, service delivery and operation.
• Good troubleshooting skills, able to handle various OTN issues.
• Participate in an on-call schedule and serve as escalation points for service-related issues.
• Network knowledge, such as TCP/IP, BGP is preferred.
• Self-motivated, good communication and written skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the Optical layer (including Transponders, and extensive optical networks) and/or the IP layer (encompassing TCP/IP, IPv6, along with one or more routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, ISIS, or equivalents).
• Practical experience in either the development, provisioning, or comprehension of network device configurations for a leading vendor like Ciena or Nokia.

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