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Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure; Seattle, WA

Job in Seattle, King County, Washington, 98127, USA
Listing for: ByteDance
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-24
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 177688 - 341734 USD Yearly USD 177688.00 341734.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure (Seattle, WA)

Senior Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure (Seattle, WA)

Location:

Seattle

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: L5856

Responsibilities

About the Team

The RD Services team works to build out the development services that enable engineers to deliver high-quality features and systems to our users. We aim to provide systems enabling software development streamline and productive. The systems we are building include Cloud IDE, Intelligent Unit Test Generation, code and build systems, CI/CD software, Micro service management and monitoring. We are looking for engineers who have good programming language work experience and background to join our team.

As a software engineer in the R&D Services team, you will:

  • Build development infra including Cloud IDE, Repo&code management and CI/CD systems
  • Build advanced intelligent data platforms, help client developers make decisions to optimize the user experience of our products.
  • Build Bytedance staging environment for Tik Tok, Ads, Shopping to enable internal isolate user and traffic from Prod, scale distributed applications, tweak technology like K8S, RPC, DB, MQ, KAFKA, HDFS, Hive, Yarn, build monitor and alert system.
  • Research and convert state of art computer engineering technology into the real product.
Qualifications

Minimun

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor degree in computer science or a related technical discipline
  • Experience working with Android/Java/Objective-C/Python/Golang
  • Experience in one or more of the following: private or public cloud, backend architecture, storage system, databases, CI/CD system, build infrastructure and big data

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Full-stack development experience
  • Experience with technical leadership and dealing with ambiguity
  • Strong strategic thinking and team collaboration skills
Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177688 - $341734 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

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
  • Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
  • Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
  • Exercising sound judgment.
  • 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,…

    Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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