Self-Built Engineer Graduate (CDN Platform) - 2027 Start

About the Team

ByteDance's Global Engineering CDN team builds and operates a highly available, cost-efficient, and high-performance global multi-cloud CDN platform that powers large-scale products such as TikTok. Our platform integrates both self-built CDN infrastructure and commercial CDN vendors across multiple regions worldwide, delivering reliable and optimized content delivery for diverse global markets. The team develops and operates core platform capabilities including domain onboarding and configuration management, content management, data analytics, and global traffic optimization.

Working in a highly distributed and complex environment, we continuously evolve the platform to support both static content delivery and dynamic acceleration, while optimizing for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Engineers in this team work across both software development and production operations, gaining hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, global traffic management, and multi-cloud infrastructure.

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.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Master'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.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $121,600 - $243,200 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; this role may be eligible for 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).