ByteDance · 1 day ago
Software Engineer Graduate (Metadata Storage)- 2026 Start (PHD)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad
$119K/yr - $259K/yrByteDance is a global tech company known for its innovative products like TikTok and CapCut. They are seeking a Software Engineer Graduate to design and develop high-performance metadata storage services, ensuring system reliability and delivering customized solutions to partner teams.
ContentData MiningFoundational AIInternetSocial Media
Responsibilities
Be responsible for the design and development of high-performance metadata storage services, delivering features including distributed coordination, distributed locks, key-value storage, and service discovery
Be responsible for delivering automated CI/deployment pipelines and disaster-recovery solutions for metadata storage services
Work with SREs to keep the metadata storage services up and running
Be the consultant to deliver customized metadata solutions to partner teams in infrastructure (compute, storage, databases, AI, etc.) and upper-layer businesses (video-streaming, ads, payment etc.); you will be deeply involved in system architecture design and optimization based on business scenarios
Qualification
Required
Currently pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, with an expected graduation date in 2026
Strong programming skills in C++ or Go in Linux environments, with experience in writing clean, maintainable and testable code
Have a solid understanding of CS Fundamentals: basic data structures (lists, queues, stacks, trees, graphs, hash tables) and algorithms (binary search, quick sort, divide and conquer, backtracking), operating system (processes, threads, mutexes, semaphores, deadlock, paging, segmentation, file system), network (OSI models, TCP/UDP, IP addressing, HTTP, DNS)
Have a basic understanding of distributed systems (e.g. CAP theorem), databases (e.g. relational vs nosql, transaction, isolation levels), and storage systems (e.g. replication, erasure encoding)
Preferred
Familiarity with advanced data structures (LSM trees, B+ trees) and algorithms (Paxos, Raft). Online courses and books such as MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems and Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) are good study resources for those topics
Hands-on or research experience with distributed systems such as HDFS, Colossus, Spanner, Chubby, ZooKeeper, etcd
Familiarity with linux system programming (epoll, io uring) and high performance networking (RDMA, DPDK)
Benefits
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
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
Founded in 2012
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
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