Site Reliability Engineer (Multiple Positions)

ByteDance

ByteDance

Software Engineering
San Jose, CA, USA
USD 190,819-259,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 7, 2025

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, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us. About the Team Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey! Responsibilities Provide site reliability engineering support to ensure the highest level of availability of large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. Assist the team in improving the reliability, scalability, and release cycle of infrastructure services from inception, design, and development including deployment, user support, and refinement. Measure and monitor availability, latency, and overall service health. Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems. Build tools, automations, visualizations, and monitors to improve the reliability and scalability of services and to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure. Establish solid design and best practices for engineers as well as non-technical team members. Share on-call responsibility and troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas.

Qualifications

Qualifications Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related field, and 1 year of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related field, and 3 years of related work experience. Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in each of the following: Working across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering and analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance of back-end and cloud native projects; Designing web applications with Java, Go, or Python programming language; Designing scalable and high available software systems for cloud environments; Automating and managing the full release lifecycle, including code development, build, testing, validation, and deployment; Performing Linux administration, including monitoring performance, debugging issues, and designing and troubleshooting networked applications using: OS concepts, including virtualization, containerization and memory management; and Developing docker containers for multiple services and deploying, managing, and monitoring them in Kubernetes cluster. Type: Full time, 40 hours/week Location: San Jose, CA Salary Range: $190819 - $259200 per year To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact lpresumes@bytedance.com if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website. 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 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://tinyurl.com/RA-request #IND-DNI

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $190819 - $259200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.