Software Engineer Graduate (Database Team) - 2024 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.

Join us.

Team Introduction

Our database team is responsible for building and owning database products used by TikTok's infrastructure including but not limited to relational databases, key-value stores, document stores, and graph databases. In this team, you’ll have the opportunity to develop and enhance a full-stack database system including storage, query execution engine, and query optimizer as well as associated management tools in a cloud-native environment. We are a team that values end-to-end service ownership, from conception to architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and service. We work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, agile environment. We are looking for candidates in the following areas:

1. Distributed Query Processing: including query execution, query optimization, system catalog, database schema, upgrade, monitoring, and serviceability.
2. Distributed Transaction Processing: including database scale out, high-performance intra-cluster communication, logging/recovery, distributed transaction and lock management, replication, and high availability.
3. Distributed Store including replication protocol: IO management, caching, hardware fault resilience on unreliable hardware.
4. Telemetry and Serviceability including: database observability and serviceability frameworks and tools such as telemetry emission, performance, and crash diagnostics.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to one of the following start dates below:

• January 15, 2024
• February 5, 2024
• March 4, 2024
• May 20, 2024
• June 10, 2024
• July 15, 2024
• August 12, 2024

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible.

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.

Technical Assessment:

Candidates who pass resume evaluation will be invited to participate in ByteDance's technical online assessment in HackerRank.

Responsibilities:

• Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.
• Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects.
• Actively participate in release and deployment process.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.

Qualifications

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, MS degree Preferred.
• Knowledge in software development and quality engineering.
• Innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and a results-oriented attitude.
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.
• Strong Java or C programming skills.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Desired Skills

• Practical knowledge of algorithms, patterns, and tradeoffs of distributed systems’ design.
• Experience with database catalog, upgrade, query execution, query optimization.
• Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.
• Any experience with Open Source projects, especially with database and/or storage projects such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Oceanbase, TiDB, ETCD, Zookeeper, Ceph, Kafka, etc. is a big plus.
• Knowledge and experience with scripting languages such as Python.
• Successful candidates should have a good understanding of network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, HTTP.

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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Job Information:

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $102400 - $259200 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our Company Benefits Are Designed To Convey Company Culture And Values, To Create An Efficient And Inspiring Work Environment, And To Support Our Employees To Give Their Best In Both Work And Life. We Offer The Following Benefits To Eligible Employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.