Network Engineer, Backbone Engineering
ByteDance, Seattle, Washington
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The role
ByteDance infrastructure networking is responsible for planning, 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 network experience in multiple technological domains on a global scale.
What you will do
- Plan, design, implement, operate and optimize ByteDance's global backbone network across all major continents.
- Collaborate with network architecture, SDN, tools platform teams to improve network scalability, resource utilization, buildout efficiency and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with team members across multiple time zones to ensure continuous global network operations.
- Partner with the NOC team to support the day-to-day operations of the global backbone network infrastructure, including responding to network incident alerts, mitigation, and service restoration during network failures.
- Travel may be required up to 15% – 30% of the time.
What you need
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Good understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP and MPLS related technologies.
- Hands-on experience with designing, building and operating wide area network (WAN) using devices from mainstream vendors, such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, H3C, Nokia, etc.
- Self-motivated, good communication and written skills.
Nice to have
- In-depth knowledge and skill of backbone traffic engineering technologies, such as RSVP-TE, SRTE-MPLS and SRv6 etc.
- In-depth knowledge of quality-of-service (QoS) technologies and implementations on wide area network.
- Good understanding of controller-based software-defined networking.
- Programming/scripting in Python or other languages.
About ByteDance
ByteDance infrastructure 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 hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.