Tech Lead / Architect, Global Traffic Infrastructure
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A142931 Responsibilities About the Team
The Global Traffic Infrastructure (GTI) team leverages unified platform capabilities to manage edge infrastructure outside China (both self-built and third-party) providing standardized, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective traffic infrastructure capabilities for edge services. Our vision is to build a global edge traffic infrastructure platform and become the long-term cornerstone of ByteDance’s global edge business in terms of scale, performance, and cost. Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture and long-term roadmap for GTI's global network and edge traffic infrastructure, supporting large-scale, latency-sensitive services.
- Design and evolve the cloud-native networking stack, including Kubernetes-based Ingress/Gateway and traffic management systems, to improve global traffic scheduling, gateway performance, and resilience.
- Build platform-level abstractions for traffic infrastructure, exposing standardized APIs and reusable capabilities that enable fast integration and innovation for traffic-intensive business teams.
- Drive architectural decisions around global load balancing, cross-region traffic steering, and edge–core collaboration.
- Partner closely with SRE, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure architectures are operable, scalable, and cost-efficient in production.
- Cloud-Native Networking: Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, Ingress/Gateway (or Gateway API), and designing cloud-native networking platforms.
- Edge Networking & CDN Architecture: Solid understanding of CDN, live streaming, or RTC architectures; experience with global load balancing, Anycast, edge node placement, and cross-region traffic optimization.
- Large-Scale System Design: Proven ability to design and evolve distributed systems operating at global scale with high performance and availability.
- Cost & Capacity Awareness: Experience balancing performance, reliability, and cost in bandwidth, PoP operations, and backbone networking.
- Experience building platformized traffic infrastructure products or APIs used by multiple upstream business teams.
- Strong communication skills with experience collaborating across regions and time zones on complex technical initiatives.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; 2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and 3. Exercising sound judgment. 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, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content. Why Join ByteDance Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. 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 - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us. Diversity & Inclusion 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. Reasonable Accommodation ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at
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