Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Ashburn

Responsibilities

The cloud team is the core component of the Byte Dance supply chain system, which aims to provide the company's global business with compliant, inexpensive, high-quality and efficient cloud supply chain end-to-end solutions. Its core mission includes global business support, compliance and cont rollability, low cost and high efficiency, and high-quality and reliable. Join a team building the backbone of global AI infrastructure.

Our Cloud Supply Chain team delivers end-to-end solutions that power the company's global business, combining compliance, cost efficiency, and quality 're not just managing supply chains; we're at the forefront of AI infrastructure strategy, ensuring the computing power behind the company's AI ambitions never becomes a bottleneck. As we look ahead, we're doubling down on AI Server cost optimization and driving smarter, leaner operations through full-chain cost governance and refined business practices.

We're also investing heavily in process automation, freeing our people from repetitive work so they can focus on the high-value problems that actually move the needle. If you want to work where supply chain strategy directly shapes the future of AI, this is the team building it.

Job Duties:

• Collaborate with business operations, forecast future load and resource requirements, analyze historical and existing business behaviors and data trends, and make corresponding resource planning and adjustments to build medium- and long-term resource planning and architecture layout .
• Promote the maturity and improvement of platform modules, address resource layout, fulfillment, and management issues through automation and engineering means, and formulate resource capacity and management rules .
• Promote internal and external manufacturers to establish architecture evolution plans, and formulate medium- and long-term NPI introduction & architecture replacement mechanisms .
• Conduct a special resource architecture review for top businesses in terms of resource inventory
• Starting from the goal of achieving business development
• Understand the dependencies of business resource architecture
• Understand the prioritization of core business concerns (resources, availability, cost)
• Helps businesses stay informed about potential opportunities for architecture optimization in real-time

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in computer-related fields, familiar with information and communication technology as well as computer architecture, such as operating systems, networks, databases, etc.;
• 3+ years of working in Cloud Service and AI Infrastructure.
• Possess the ability to systematically solve problems, good communication skills, and a sense of ownership, as well as teamwork and communication capabilities;

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cloud Service, AI infrastructure, Container Technology, and microservice architecture, with corresponding practical experience preferred;
• Familiar with the underlying knowledge and experience of mainstream product design principles and implementation architectures from different cloud computing vendors is preferred.

About Us

Founded in 2012, Byte Dance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including Tik Tok, Lemon8, Cap Cut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, Byte Dance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Byte Dance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of Byte Dance'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 Byte Dancers, 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…