Software Engineer Graduate

About the Role

The Traffic Infrastructure (TI) team leverages unified platform capabilities to manage global edge infrastructure, providing standardized, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective traffic infrastructure capabilities for edge services. The vision is to build a global edge traffic infrastructure platform and become a cornerstone of ByteDance's global edge business in terms of scale, performance, and cost. As a New Grad engineer, you will join a team of experienced infrastructure engineers who will mentor you. You will work on real production systems that serve global edge traffic at massive scale, gaining hands-on exposure to cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and networking.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and operation of infrastructure components for global edge PoPs (e.g., Kubernetes/control plane, virtualization/containers, Ingress/Gateway), with guidance from mentor engineers, focusing on performance, reliability, and security.
• Participate in the end-to-end delivery of cloud-native features — from requirements and implementation to testing and production rollout — while learning engineering best practices.
• Help build observability and troubleshooting tooling (metrics/logs/tracing/profiling) and contribute to automation that improves incident response efficiency.
• Collaborate with SRE, platform, and product teams, and grow into an engineer who can independently own standardized, reusable platform capabilities for traffic-intensive services.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Individuals who are currently pursuing or recently completed a BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, graduating within the past year or by the expected start date.
• Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems, computer networks).
• Programming experience in one or more languages such as Go, C or Rust, demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, internships, or open-source contributions.
• Familiarity with Linux and basic understanding of containers, distributed systems, or networking concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a growth mindset, ownership, and eagerness to learn in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Internship, co-op, or research experience related to backend/systems development, cloud-native technologies, or infrastructure.
• Hands-on exposure to containers and Kubernetes through coursework, side projects, or internships (e.g., deploying applications, basic cluster operations, service discovery, Ingress/Gateway).
• Contributions to cloud-native open-source projects (e.g., Kubernetes, Containerd, Cilium/eBPF).
• Deeper Linux knowledge (kernel, scheduling, TCP/IP, routing, iptables/nftables) gained through projects or self-study.
• Coursework, projects, or curiosity around CDN, live streaming, RTC, or other edge/traffic-intensive architectures.