Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Services (Boston)

About the position

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. Our Content Distribution Networks (CDN) team operates on a hybrid platform that integrates both commercial CDN vendors and ByteDance's proprietary edge network. This platform encompasses a vast array of Points of Presence (POPs) around the world, hosting edge services like traffic acceleration, CDN caching, gaming, and more. We are looking for experienced reliability and performance engineers to ensure the stability and reliability of our edge services and products running on our hybrid CDN platform. This role will also involve optimizing performance and developing innovative solutions to meet the evolving business demands at the edge. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to create and manage large-scale, highly distributed infrastructures. Our SREs are responsible for ensuring that these infrastructure services are reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective. In this role, you will manage complex systems at scale, including hyperscale datacenter administration, public cloud management, global CDNs, and load balancers that process terabits of traffic per second. You will collaborate with diverse teams to translate business requirements into actionable items, driving improvements in system design and operational procedures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement solutions that enable both internal and external customers to harness the power of Bytedance's globally scaled content delivery network.
• Build metrics, tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the edge services.
• Develop procedures and workflows that improve efficiency, foster trust, and ensure compliance in operational processes.
• Run vulnerability and capacity assessment and develop disaster recovery strategies to ensure high availability of our global CDN services.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.