- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: IT
- Industry: Consumer
- Post Date: 05/30/2026
- Website: bytedance.com
- Company Address: , Beijing, China, 100098
About ByteDance
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.Job Description
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 - Lead and grow a senior engineering team responsible for GTI's global traffic and edge infrastructure platform. - Define and drive the technical vision and execution roadmap for global traffic infrastructure in partnership with architects and cross-functional stakeholders. - Balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, including technical direction, hiring, coaching, and performance development. - Drive the platformization of traffic infrastructure, delivering standardized services and APIs that improve efficiency and adoption across business teams. - Partner with SRE, network, and capacity teams to ensure systems are highly reliable, operable, and cost-efficient at global scale. - Represent GTI in cross-team and cross-region technical alignment, influencing architecture and prioritization.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - Technical Leadership: Experience leading complex infrastructure or platform teams, with strong architectural judgment in cloud-native and networking domains. - Cloud-Native & Edge Infrastructure: Deep understanding of Kubernetes-based networking, traffic gateways, and global traffic management systems. - Edge Networking & CDN Architecture: Experience with CDN, live streaming, or RTC architectures, including global load balancing and cross-region traffic steering. - Cost & Capacity Management: Proven experience managing trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost at scale. Preferred Qualifications - Experience building and operating platform-level infrastructure adopted by multiple internal product teams. - Track record of leading cross-region, cross–time zone technical collaboration with strong communication skills. - Experience managing teams of 8–10 engineers in a global, distributed environment.
Job Information
For Pay TransparencyCompensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $232560 - $427500 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request