Big Data Development Engineer (Tea), Data Platform

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.​

Job highlights

Career growth opportunity, Paid leave, Industry experts, Meals provided

Responsibilities

Team Introduction

Tea (Toutiao Event Analyze) is an in-house analytics platform that is heavily used by more than 10,000 employees globally. This is a data middle platform product built on user behavior data, providing data analysis services for various domestic and international businesses within ByteDance/TikTok, including Douyin, Toutiao, Xigua, TikTok, and more. It possesses robust capabilities to support exabyte-level massive data, trillion-level event volume, and millisecond-level response time, offering users simple, flexible, and high-performance data analysis services.We are the global engineering team for Tea. We are passionate about building the best data analytics platform in the world and are looking for top-notch software engineers to join the talented team. We deliver Tea products to over ten regions worldwide, optimizing product performance based on the unique data and cultural characteristics of each region.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee for the deployment, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of big data platforms.- Implement and optimize the infrastructure for big data storage, processing, and computation.

- Participate in the architectural design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of big data platforms.

- Analyze and resolve complex system performance and stability issues to ensure system reliability and stability.

- Write technical documentation to record system configurations and operational procedures.

- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s):

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

- At least 1 year of relevant experience in software engineering.

- Experience in big data platform operations, familiarity with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Clickhouse, etc.

- Solid programming skills, proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, Python).

- Strong foundation in computer science, familiarity with operating system principles, data structures, and algorithms.

Preferred Qualification(s):

- Familiarity with and adherence to international data protection regulations; ability to formulate and execute compliance-oriented strategies.

- Experience in deploying and maintaining big data platforms across multiple global locations; familiarity with cross-geographical operational challenges.

- Strong problem analysis and resolution skills.

- Excellent teamwork and communication skills, experience in project management.