Software Engineer, Cloud Native Observability Management Platform
First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026. ByteDance scores A on the Alion truth index.
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.
About the Team
Join ByteDance's Cloud Native-Observability Team! We build the data infrastructure for the company's full-stack observability products and deliver volcano-engine's observability capabilities. Leveraging k8s, Docker, Spring, and time-series engine tech, we provide high-quality, cost-effective, and high-performance time-series services.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and optimize user-oriented operation products & SRE-oriented O&M products for ByteDance and Volcengine's cloud-native time-series database.
- Develop cloud-native intelligent management platform for observability time-series engine, covering cluster lifecycle (creation, configuration, HA, disaster recovery, backup, audit, etc.).
- Build and optimize automated testing frameworks (function, performance, stability) to support observability business.
- Drive quality engineering and stability construction for observability services.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in software engineering for large-scale production environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Proficient in Go/Java (at least one), with experience in microservice frameworks such as gin/kitex/Spring.
- In-depth understanding of Observability; familiar with at least one tool (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK Stack/Jaeger, etc.). Large-scale data experience preferred.
- Skilled in server-side multi-threading/high concurrency; good coding practices (clean code, unit testing).
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with MySQL/PostgreSQL; knowledge of relational DB principles or O&M experience is a plus.
- Practical experience in K8s/Yarn/Mesos (with source code knowledge) or distributed consistency protocols (Raft/Paxos) is a plus.
Skills
Communication, Teamwork, Collaboration, Computer Science, OpenTelemetry, System Performance, Grafana, Backend Development, Time Series Database, Software Development