Tech Lead Manager, Global Traffic Infrastructure

About the Team The Global Traffic Infrastructure (GTI) team leverages unified platform capabilities to manage edge infrastructure outside China (both self-built and third-party) providing standardized, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective traffic infrastructure capabilities for edge services. Our vision is to build a global edge traffic infrastructure platform and become the long-term cornerstone of Byte Dance's global edge business in terms of scale, performance, and cost.

Responsibilities - Lead and grow a senior engineering team responsible for GTI's global traffic and edge infrastructure platform.

- Define and drive the technical vision and execution roadmap for global traffic infrastructure in partnership with architects and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, including technical direction, hiring, coaching, and performance development.

- Drive the platformization of traffic infrastructure, delivering standardized services and APIs that improve efficiency and adoption across business teams.

- Partner with SRE, network, and capacity teams to ensure systems are highly reliable, operable, and cost-efficient at global scale.

- Represent GTI in cross-team and cross-region technical alignment, influencing architecture and prioritization.

Minimum Qualifications - Technical Leadership:
Experience leading complex infrastructure or platform teams, with strong architectural judgment in cloud-native and networking domains.

- Cloud-Native & Edge

Infrastructure: Deep understanding of Kubernetes-based networking, traffic gateways, and global traffic management systems.

- Edge Networking & CDN Architecture:

Experience with CDN, live streaming, or RTC architectures, including global load balancing and cross-region traffic steering.

- Cost & Capacity Management:
Proven experience managing trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost ferred Qualifications - Experience building and operating platform-level infrastructure adopted by multiple internal product teams.

- Track record of leading cross-region, cross-time zone technical collaboration with strong communication skills.

- Experience managing teams of 8-10 engineers in a global, distributed environment.