Senior Sre Architect, Security Engineering

Responsibilities

About the Company
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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 Security Engineering Team
The security engineering team is missioned to build security services, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. You also have opportunities to go through the whole lifecycle of security products or services, are encouraged to participate in each phase, each part of the projects and have the whole picture of what we are working on.

We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower our users with high availability and stellar performance level to pursue their missions from security perspective. As we expand our business in APAC, we are currently seeking experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale security systems in real time. You will not only address those regular day-to-day technical problems but also are encouraged to bring fresh ideas, investigate the existing infrastructure, identify problems, and develop new solutions to those challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. We are moving fast while expanding on a large scale (1B+ users). This role assumes a huge impact and plays a key role in the company's business.

Responsibilities

• Design the roadmap of improvement of reliability and stability of security building blocks and drive the design and implementation of SRE architecture or frameworks for high availability and reliability of existing security products and services
• Build an SRE framework for system deployment, upgrade, rapid troubleshooting, and disaster recovery, and promote the design and development of SRE infrastructure and maintenance tools for full lifecycle security system development
• Responsible for the capacity planning of security building blocks; by analyzing past and future business development, assess the changes in the demand for system resources; accurately estimate the usage of resources such as storage, computing, and networking, and proactively expand and optimize resources.
• Drive the establishment and improvement of the system monitoring framework, and enhance the awareness of the system operation status.
• Develop and implement incident response processes and contingency plans; improve the team's emergency handling capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information security, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in developing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and SRE platform/tool
• Solid programming skills, proficient in at least one programming language among Go/Java/Python/Shell, familiar with at least one Web framework such as Gin/Django/Spring, and have a considerable understanding of its design principles;
• Solid background in operating systems, networks, storage, and computer architectures; familiar with cloud-native frameworks like Kubernetes.
• Experienced in designing highly reliable and available system architectures. Including distributed systems, microservice architectures, load balancing, storage systems, fault-tolerance mechanisms, etc.
• Proficient in system troubleshooting, capable of identifying potential problems in the system and designing prevention solutions with effective recovery plans;
• Familiar with various popular and classic SRE technologies and tools (such as Ansible, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana, etc.) with an insight into new technologies.
• Good teamwork and communication skills; be able to closely collaborate with all stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master or PhD degree in computer science, information security, or a related field is preferred
• An international degree or international working experience
• Experience of R&D in software, especially large scale distributed systems

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.