Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service; RDS

Senior Software Development Engineer, Relational Database Service (RDS)

Location:

Seattle

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.

In this role, you’ll work in an open, agile, and highly collaborative environment in the following areas.

• Database and system administration, 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; 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.

• Minimum:
  Bachelor/Master degree in computer‑related fields; at least 2 years of software development experience; proficiency in one or more general‑purpose programming languages such as Golang or Python; demonstrated good coding practices, code cleanliness, refactoring skills, and experience with unit testing.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks and tools such as Django, Flask, Gin, Kitex, etc.; familiarity with database management and internal implementation mechanisms.
• Preferred:
  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.
• Preferred:
  Experience with database kernel/middleware/platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, HBase, Click House, etc.).
• Preferred:
  Strong motivation for technology, excellent communication skills, teamwork spirit, and strong problem‑analysis and problem‑solving skills.

The base salary range for this position in Seattle is $202,160 – $368,220 annually.

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, and more. 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).

Byte Dance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other…