Site Reliability Engineer - Machine Learning Systems

About Doubao (Seed)

Founded in 2023, the ByteDance Doubao (Seed) Team is dedicated to pioneering advanced AI foundation models. Our goal is to lead in cutting-edge research and drive technological and societal advancements.

With a strong commitment to AI, our research areas span deep learning, reinforcement learning, language, vision, audio, AI infrastructure, and AI safety. Our team has labs and research positions across China, Singapore, and the US.

Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, we have developed a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. In the Chinese market, Doubao models power over 50 ByteDance apps and business lines, including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, and is available to external enterprise clients via Volcano Engine. Today, the Doubao app stands as the most widely used AIGC application in China.

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.

About the Team

The ByteDance Large Model Team is committed to developing the most advanced AI large model technology in the industry, becoming a world-class research team, and contributing to technological and social development. The team has a long-term vision and determination in the field of AI, with research directions covering NLP, CV, speech, and other areas. Relying on the abundant data and computing resources of the platform, the team has continued to invest in relevant fields and has launched its own general large model, providing multi-modal capabilities.

The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and inference systems/services around the world, providing high-performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI.

In our team, you'll have the opportunity to build large-scale heterogeneous systems integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep them running steadily and reliably, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis, and distributed systems, and be involved in the decision-making process. You'll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China, and Singapore working collaboratively towards a unified project direction.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring our ML systems are operating and running efficiently for large model deployment, training, evaluation, and inference.
• Responsible for the stability of offline tasks/services in multi-data center, multi-region, and multi-cloud scenarios.
• Responsible for resource management and planning, cost and budget, including computing and storage resources.
• Responsible for global system disaster recovery, cluster machine governance, stability of business services, resource utilization improvement, and operation efficiency improvement.
• Build software tools, products, and systems to monitor and manage the ML infrastructure and services efficiently.
• Be part of the global team roster that ensures system and business on-call support.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, computer engineering or related fields.
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go/Python/Shell in a Linux environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers skills, and have 3 years of relevant operation and maintenance experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess excellent logical analysis ability, able to reasonably abstract and split business logic, a strong sense of responsibility, good learning ability, communication ability, self-driven, and good team spirit.
• Have good documentation principles and habits to be able to write and update workflow and technical documentation as required on time.
• Engage in the operation and maintenance of large-scale ML distributed systems.
• Experience in operation and maintenance of GPU servers.

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.