Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Security Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Security Engineering

ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures and geographies.

About the Company
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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.

About the Security Engineering Team
The security engineering team is missioned to build security services, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions.

Responsibilities
1. Lead or drive an SRE team to design and implement the security SRE framework for the company's security infrastructure, and build cutting-edge SRE technologies for system deployment, upgrade, capacity planning and rapid troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
2. Drive the implementation and the improvement of automation and the intelligence of the SRE infrastructure and evolve it into a platform; build solutions to measure and monitor availability, scalability, latency and overall system health of security products and services developed by partner teams.
3. Drive the design and development of the SRE infrastructure and maintenance tools for the full lifecycle of security system development; support the rapid iteration and system reliability of the company's security services.
4. Coordinate support to cross-functional teams and external customers with security products and services.
5. Responsible for building, scaling, managing and coaching the SRE team, as well as driving technical decisions as a leader.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, with minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in developing and maintaining large-scale distributed SRE platform/tooling with automation.
2. Solid programming skills, mastering at least one of the programming skills such as Go/Java/Python/Shell, and being able to deliver high quality code; Familiar with at least one of the web frameworks, such as Gin/Django/Spring.
3. Experienced and hands-on skills in debugging, troubleshooting and optimization of sophisticated distributed systems and platforms.
4. Deep understanding of OS (Linux, Windows), Network (TCP/IP, HTTP, etc), with good exposure to network, storage, as well as computer architecture.
5. Familiar with Redis/MySQL/PostgreSQL database architecture and working principle, including high availability cluster construction, monitoring, backup, fault handling, and performance optimization.
6. Familiar with cloud-native framework with experience in Kubernetes. Good experience with SRE tools such as Ansible, ELK, Prometheus and Grafana.

Preferred Qualifications
1. Passionate about self-studying cutting edge technologies and staying relevant. Strong communication and collaboration skills, and willing to take ownership.
2. Proven track record in managing a high-performing SRE team for at least 2 years with excellent technical leadership skills.

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.