Tech Lead Manager, Global Traffic Infrastructure ByteDance - Seattle, WA, US

Tech Lead Manager, Global Traffic Infrastructure

ByteDance

Seattle, WA, US

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.

Compensation 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.