Backend Software Engineer Graduate (Platform) - 2027 Start

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut, and Pico, as well as platforms specific to the China market, such as Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover, and connect—and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity, and enrich life. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people, leading with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an impact in a rapidly growing tech company.

About the Role

The DCS platform team's goal is to build all the necessary and advanced tooling to support full-lifecycle operation and management of domestic and overseas data centers. This includes data center infrastructure operation and maintenance, server delivery, server operation, asset and resource management, platform tooling, as well as cloud services and server system services. Our vision is to provide highly available, stable, high-performance, and cost-effective computing resources for all business lines of the company.

As a graduate, you will have opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• Build platforms, systems, and services for internal and external teams to interact with large-scale production systems.
• Build tools to improve engineering productivity.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Bring new ideas and technologies into our platform, innovate, and iterate.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals completing or who have recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Coursework, academic projects, or internship experience in two or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, or building software systems.
• Strong foundational programming and problem-solving skills, with the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.
• Genuine interest in IT Operations concepts such as Discovery, Insights, and Configuration Management (DICM), IT Operations Management (ITOM), or IT Service Management (ITSM); prior coursework or exposure is a plus but not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to GPU computing, big data technologies (Hadoop/Kafka/Apache), or streaming/computing concepts through coursework, internships, or personal projects.
• Software development experience with Golang or Python, through coursework, internships, or personal projects.
• Familiarity with the web stack, including protocols and basic web server concepts.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues in an academic, internship, or personal project setting.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $128,000 - $256,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package, which may include additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Day-one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year.
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).