ByteDance

Responsibilities

About the Team

ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyper-scale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experience in data center networking at massive scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of switch OS for data center network devices;
• Explore new networking, monitoring, and telemetry technologies to improve data center network efficiency and availability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related major, with 5 or more years in professional software development
• Master one or several of the mainstream programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Python, Go, bash
• Passion in high-speed IP networking, hardware-software interaction, and hardware offloading technologies
• Knowledge of Linux or Unix; proficient in Linux command line, vim/emacs
• Knowledge on how switch/router works, embedded system hardware architecture, processor architecture, and switch/router OS
• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus
• Familiar with or protocol development, experience in routing protocols, telemetry development
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment.
• Self-motivation and self-driving under limited supervision

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus