Tech Lead, Site Reliability Engineering - Global Traffic Platform
ByteDance
Responsibilities
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 ByteDance’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: Build a global 24x7 follow-the-sun on-call model; unify incident processes (triage, response, escalation, communication) to reduce blast radius and recovery time. - Postmortems & Stability Programs: Lead 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.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - 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. - Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Familiar with multi-active architectures, cross-region DR, fault domain design, and degradation strategies; able to plan and execute chaos engineering exercises. - 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. - Engineering & Team Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional stability initiatives, defining technical standards and on-call practices, and building a learning-oriented SRE team. 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 toolchains, 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 leading complex cross-border technical collaborations. - Experience managing teams of 8–10 engineers in a global, distributed environment.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 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. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance'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 ByteDancers, 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
ByteDance 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 ByteDance, 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.
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