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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ML System

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: ByteDance
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-18
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Location

San Jose

Team

Technology

Employment Type

Regular

Job Code

A159986

Responsibilities

The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and inference system/services around the world, providing high‑performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to build the large‑scale heterogeneous system integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep it running stable and reliable, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis and distributed system, and be involved in the decision‑making process.

You'll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China and Singapore working collaboratively towards unified project direction.

  • Responsible for ensuring our ML systems are operating and running efficiently for large model development, training, evaluation, and inference.
  • Responsible for the stability of offline tasks/services in multi‑data center, multi‑region, and multi‑cloud scenarios.
  • Responsible for resource management and planning, cost and budget, including computing and storage resources.
  • Responsible for global system disaster recovery, cluster machine governance, stability of business services, resource utilisation improvement and operation efficiency improvement.
  • Build software tools, products and systems to monitor and manage the ML infrastructure and services efficiently.
  • Be part of the global team roster that ensures system and business on‑call support.
  • Qualifications

    Minimum Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree or above, major in computer science, computer engineering or related.
    • Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go/Python/Shell in Linux environment.
    • Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and containers skills, and have more than 2 years of relevant operation and maintenance experience.
    • Possess excellent logical analysis ability, able to reasonably abstract and split business logic.
    • Have good documentation principles and habits to be able to write and update workflow and technical documentation as required on time.
    • Possess a strong sense of responsibility, good learning ability, communication ability and self‑drive, good team spirit.
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Engaged in the operation and maintenance of large‑scale ML distributed systems.
    • Experience in operation and maintenance of GPU servers.
    Job Information 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 users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

    Diversity

    & Inclusion

    Byte Dance 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 Byte Dance, 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.

    Reasonable Accommodation

    Byte Dance 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

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    Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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