Self-Built Engineer Graduate (CDN Platform)
TikTok
About the Role
As a Graduate Engineer joining ByteDance's Global Engineering CDN team, you will participate in building and operating a highly available, cost-efficient, and high-performance global multi-cloud CDN platform that powers large-scale products such as TikTok. You will gain hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, global traffic management, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in the development, operation, and continuous improvement of ByteDance's self-built CDN platform.
- Support internal service teams in adopting the self-built CDN platform, including onboarding, configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Help improve platform supportability, operational workflows, and technical enablement for large-scale CDN services.
- Contribute to CDN technical documentation, including onboarding guides, configuration references, troubleshooting playbooks, and best practices.
- Participate in CDN knowledge base construction to improve knowledge sharing, issue resolution, and engineering efficiency.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Familiar with at least one programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C/C++.
- Solid foundation in data structures, operating systems, computer networks, and databases.
- Basic understanding of Internet technologies such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, TLS/certificates, caching, or Linux.
- Strong learning ability, problem-solving skills, and interest in infrastructure platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with backend development, cloud infrastructure, networking, CDN, or distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience with technical documentation, developer tools, operational tooling, or knowledge base construction is a plus.
- Relevant internship experience, course projects, research projects, or open-source contributions are a plus.
- Structured thinking, good communication skills, and collaborative mindset.
Onboarding date by the end of the year is required.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions globally across the Company and its affiliates.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.