Tech Lead / Architect, Global Traffic Infrastructure ByteDance - Seattle, WA, US

Tech Lead / Architect, 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 - Own the technical architecture and long-term roadmap for GTI's global network and edge traffic infrastructure, supporting large-scale, latency-sensitive services. - Design and evolve the cloud-native networking stack, including Kubernetes-based Ingress/Gateway and traffic management systems, to improve global traffic scheduling, gateway performance, and resilience. - Build platform-level abstractions for traffic infrastructure, exposing standardized APIs and reusable capabilities that enable fast integration and innovation for traffic-intensive business teams. - Drive architectural decisions around global load balancing, cross-region traffic steering, and edge–core collaboration. - Partner closely with SRE, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure architectures are operable, scalable, and cost-efficient in production.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Cloud-Native Networking: Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, Ingress/Gateway (or Gateway API), and designing cloud-native networking platforms. - Edge Networking & CDN Architecture: Solid understanding of CDN, live streaming, or RTC architectures; experience with global load balancing, Anycast, edge node placement, and cross-region traffic optimization. - Large-Scale System Design: Proven ability to design and evolve distributed systems operating at global scale with high performance and availability. - Cost & Capacity Awareness: Experience balancing performance, reliability, and cost in bandwidth, PoP operations, and backbone networking. Preferred Qualifications - Experience building platformized traffic infrastructure products or APIs used by multiple upstream business teams. - Strong communication skills with experience collaborating across regions and time zones on complex technical initiatives.

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.