Senior Software Development Engineer, Rational Database Service; RDS

Senior Software Development Engineer, Rational Database Service (RDS)

Location:

Seattle

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A85835A

Join Byte Dance’s database development team, where you’ll build and own cutting‑edge database products supporting Byte Dance’s global infrastructure. Our diverse portfolio includes relational databases, distributed caches, key‑value stores, document databases, graph databases, wide‑column stores, search engines, and multi‑model databases. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance these services in a cloud‑native environment, embracing a culture of intellectual curiosity, self‑direction, and problem‑solving.

We embrace a culture of self‑direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem‑solving. We are looking for candidates to work in an open, agile, and highly collaborative environment in the following areas:

• Database and system administration, including ensuring the reliability and observability of databases in a global large‑scale network and efficiently handling user requests.
• Providing efficient and stable database platform services, including node scaling, high availability, backup/recovery, and database monitoring.
• Disaster recovery and high availability, including global cross‑region database disaster recovery solutions, providing efficient and rapid high‑availability switching capabilities and data consistency guarantees.

• Partner closely with Product Managers (PMs) to develop RDS features (e.g., database operation tickets, backup/restore, scaling, high availability); drive cross‑team collaboration to ensure aligned execution and timely delivery of RDS products.
• Design and develop the RDS platform and core components (e.g., database instance management, resource lifecycle management, monitoring & alerting modules, backup/restore systems) based on business scenarios and user demands; implement high‑performance, reliable, and secure database service capabilities, including but not limited to automated deployment, elastic scaling, fault self‑healing, and data consistency guarantees; and enhance system scalability to support millions of database instances and high concurrent access.
• Conduct performance and scalability tests and research innovative ideas for improvement.
• Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional and system‑test for product quality.
• Participate in the release and deployment process.
• Solve unique, large‑scale, highly complex cloud infrastructure problems.

• Bachelor/Master degree in computer‑related fields.
• Minimum of 2 years of working experience in Software development field.
• Proficiency in one or more general‑purpose programming languages, such as Golang, Python, etc.
• Demonstrated good coding practices, including code cleanliness, refactoring skills, and experience with unit testing.
• Familiar with web development frameworks and tools, such as Django, Flask, Gin, Kitex, etc. Familiar with database management and internal implementation mechanisms.

• Familiar with core web development technologies: HTTP protocol, RESTful API design specifications, JSON/Protobuf data serialization, and middleware development.
• Preferred:
  Experience with microservice architecture; knowledge of service discovery (Consul/Nacos), load balancing, RPC frameworks (Kitex/Go‑Micro/gRPC), and distributed configuration centers.
• Experience with database kernel/database middleware/database management platform experience is preferred. (Commonly used databases such as MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, Mongodb, HBase, Clickhouse, etc.).
• Strong motivation for technology, good communication skills and teamwork spirit, excellent problem analysis and problem‑solving skills are preferred.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177,688 - $341,734 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…