ByteDance

Responsibilities

About the Security Assurance Team at ByteDance

The team is missioned to build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team, you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

• Discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, support incident response, forensics, remediation in a cross-functional environment driving towards incident resolution.
• Collaborate closely with other parts of the security team and product teams to design defense-in-depth controls that limit attackers' ability and improve our security postures.
• Continuously design and conduct penetration testing to determine if infrastructure components, systems and applications meet security standards in the staging/production environment.
• To identify risks and actively take ownership to resolve any potential security project issues.
• Continuously conduct security research and strive to innovate.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other STEM disciplines.
• Strong knowledge in some of these various disciplines: web application security, mobile app security, cloud security and thick client security.
• Solid experience in writing and reviewing code in at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript (Node JS), Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust.
• Good project management skills and focused teamwork.

Preferred Qualifications

• CTF players, live competitions and hacking events experience.
• CVEs such as remote code execution are preferred.
• BugBounty experience with reputable statistics in HackerOne, BugCrowd etc.

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@bytedance.com.