Senior/Tech Lead Network Software Development Engineer, Switch – 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 and Helo 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 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.

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.

Join us.

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 hyper-scale 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 at massive scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of switch OS for data center network devices;
• Explore new networking, monitoring, and telemetry technologies to improve data center network efficiency and availability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related major, with 5 or more years in professional software development
• Master one or several of the mainstream programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Python, Go, bash
• Passion in high-speed IP networking, hardware-software interaction, and hardware offloading technologies
• Knowledge of Linux or Unix; proficient in Linux command line, vim/emacs
• Knowledge on how switch/router works, embedded system hardware architecture, processor architecture, and switch/router OS
• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus
• Familiar with or protocol development, experience in routing protocols, telemetry development
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment.
• Self-motivation and self-driving under limited supervision

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus

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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