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Senior Software Engineer- Metadata Storage

san jose, CA

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Job description

Senior Software Engineer- Metadata Storage

Location: San Jose

Team: Technology

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A41859

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate ultra-performance metadata services, delivering key features including distributed coordination, distributed locking, metadata key-value storage, service discovery, etc.

Develop automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.

Provide metadata solutions for teams in technical infrastructure areas (compute, storage, databases, etc.) and upper-layer business areas (advertising, payments, AI, etc.), driving cross-team collaborations for system architecture design and optimization for various business use cases.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.

Strong coding skills in C / C++.

Deep understanding of consensus protocols including Raft, Paxos, ZAB, etc.

Hands‑on experience with large‑scale distributed systems; capability of troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in Go, Java, or Rust.

Experience maintaining and contributing to open source projects including ZooKeeper, Etcd, etc.

Experience with compute / storage / network tech stacks, including Kubernetes, NVMe, SPDK/DPDK, TCP/UDP, RDMA.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212,800 - $387,600 annually.

Benefits

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).

Legal Notice (Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance)

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:

Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;

Exercising sound judgment.

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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Worksite address

san jose, CA, 95199, US

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