Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Traffic Infrastructure

Senior SRE - Global Traffic Infrastructure

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A33187

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:

• SLO/SLI & Error Budget:
  Align with business stability goals; own the overall SLO strategy and execution for the platform; build and operate an SLO/SLI & Error Budget framework covering critical user journeys/services.
• Release & Change Governance:
  Drive end-to-end release/change management across code, configuration, network and capacity; establish standardized change reviews, canary/phased rollout strategies, rollback mechanisms, and release window governance.
• Incident Management & On-call:
  Participate in our own on-call model; unify incident processes (triage, response, escalation, communication) to reduce blast radius and recovery time.
• Postmortems & Stability Programs:
  Participate in major incident postmortems; drive cross-team stability programs (e.g., chaos engineering, capacity stress testing, SPOF elimination); distill reusable best practices.
• Design for Operability:
  Partner closely with platform engineering and network/infrastructure teams to shift-left operability and reliability requirements into architectural design and development workflows.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in SRE/Dev Ops/Production Engineering/Infrastructure Backend roles, supporting large-scale online systems.
• SRE Methodology:
  Strong grasp of SLO/SLI, Error Budget, incident management, and postmortems, with proven production adoption experience in large-scale online systems.
• CI/CD & Progressive Delivery:
  Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment patterns such as blue-green, canary, phased rollout, configuration management, and feature flags; able to design and promote a unified change governance system.
• Observability:
  Hands-on experience across metrics, logs, tracing and profiling; familiarity with eBPF-based approaches to improve observability and troubleshooting efficiency.
• Cloud-native & Networking Fundamentals:
  Understanding of Kubernetes, CNI, traffic management, and global LB/Anycast; practical exposure to self-built CDN/edge node runtimes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of scaling and operating a global follow-the-sun on-call and incident command process across regions/time zones.
• Depth in eBPF-based observability and diagnosis tool chains, and/or edge traffic infrastructure (global load balancing/Anycast, CDN/edge runtime) operations.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with global teams across multiple time zones; experience complex cross-border technical collaborations.

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 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.

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.

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