Security Engineer - Intrusion Detection - 2025 Start

at  ByteDance

About the Company
Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, 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 Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance’s purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.
About the Team
The team is missioned to build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with ByteDance.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to ByteDance and its affiliates’ jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing the company’s internal anti-intrusion strategies, conducting data mining on large volumes of data and logs, and applying rules, models, and algorithms to create machine learning and deep learning solutions for detecting basic security scenarios such as intrusions.
• Enhance the overall effectiveness of anti-intrusion solutions by advancing capabilities in machine learning, deep learning, and large-scale models, and fortifying defense in depth.

Minimum Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Familiar with common security attack and defense techniques.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Shell, Python, Java, or Go

Preferred Qualifications

• Priority will be given to those who have published work in leading conferences and journals in relevant academic fields and have research experience in building anti-intrusion strategies, such as ITDR/UEBA.

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.
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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@bytedance.co

• Responsible for developing the company’s internal anti-intrusion strategies, conducting data mining on large volumes of data and logs, and applying rules, models, and algorithms to create machine learning and deep learning solutions for detecting basic security scenarios such as intrusions.
• Enhance the overall effectiveness of anti-intrusion solutions by advancing capabilities in machine learning, deep learning, and large-scale models, and fortifying defense in depth