Site Reliability Engineer Graduate (Data Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Position Overview

Join ByteDance’s innovative Data Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in San Jose (Technology Team) as a Regular employee (Job Code: A193827A). In this role, you will merge software development with infrastructure operations to design, develop, and manage large-scale, cloud-managed distributed systems. As a graduate, you will have unparalleled opportunities to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas, and grow professionally. Please note, successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2026.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in and enhance the complete service lifecycle from inception and design, through development, capacity planning, launch reviews, deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Design and implement software platforms and monitoring frameworks to govern a service-oriented architecture efficiently, automatically, and intelligently.
• Develop and manage components of cloud-managed data infrastructure, including technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, and Flink.
• Establish sustainable mechanisms for scaling systems — including automation — to enhance reliability, efficiency, and velocity.
• Provide sustainable user support, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless postmortems to continuously improve system performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, or Rust.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies such as MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, and Flink.
• Experience in designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and technical depth with related tools and systems.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Base salary range of $118657 - $187200 annually. Note that compensation may vary based on qualifications, skills, and experience.
• Benefits: Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits, plus 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).