Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

About the role

The Cloud Supply Chain team delivers end-to-end solutions that power ByteDance’s global business, combining compliance, cost efficiency, and quality at scale. We build the backbone of global AI infrastructure, ensuring computing power never becomes a bottleneck. The team is focused on AI Server cost optimization, full-chain cost governance, and process automation to drive smarter, leaner operations and free up talent for high-value work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business operations to forecast future load and resource requirements, analyze historical and existing business behaviors and data trends, and build medium- and long-term resource planning and architecture layout.
• Promote the maturity and improvement of platform modules, address resource layout, fulfillment, and management issues through automation and engineering means, and formulate resource capacity and management rules.
• Drive internal and external manufacturers to establish architecture evolution plans and formulate medium- and long-term NPI introduction & architecture replacement mechanisms.
• Conduct specialized resource architecture reviews for top businesses, including:
  • Understanding business resource architecture dependencies.
  • Prioritizing core business concerns (resources, availability, cost).
  • Helping businesses identify real-time opportunities for architecture optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in a computer-related field; familiarity with information and communication technology and computer architecture (e.g., operating systems, networks, databases).
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Service and AI Infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving skills, communication abilities, sense of ownership, and teamwork capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cloud Service, AI infrastructure, Container Technology, and microservice architecture, with hands-on experience preferred.
• Knowledge of mainstream cloud computing vendors’ product design principles and underlying architectures.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. Our products—including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut, Pico, Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua—make it easier and more fun for people to connect, consume, and create content globally.

We foster an "Always Day 1" mindset, valuing curiosity, humility, and impact. As ByteDancers, we create and grow together, achieving breakthroughs for our company and users.

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, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time per year (prorated upon hire, with accruals increasing by tenure).

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $159,000 – $384,000 annually, depending on qualifications, skills, experience, and location. Eligible roles may include additional bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits vary by employment type and work location.