Site Reliability Engineer, ML System

at  ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo 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.
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment, and enterprise services - over 2.5 billion people interact with ByteDance products, including TikTok
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.
Team Intro
The ByteDance Large Model Team is committed to developing the most advanced AI large model technology in the industry, becoming a world-class research team, and contributing to technological and social development. The Large Model Team has a long-term vision and determination in the field of AI, with research directions covering NLP, CV, speech, and other areas. Relying on the abundant data and computing resources of the platform, the team has continued to invest in relevant fields and has launched its own general large model, providing multi-modal capabilities.
The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and Inference system/services around the world, providing high-performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI
In our team, you’ll have the opportunity to build the large scale heterogeneous system integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep it running stable and reliable, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis and distributed system, and be involved in the decision-making process. You’ll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China and Singapore working collaboratively towards unified project direction.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or above, major in computer science, computer engineering or related
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go/Python/Shell in Linux environment
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers skills, and have more than 2 years of relevant operation and maintenance experience
• Possess excellent logical analysis ability, able to reasonably abstract and split business logic
• Have good documentation principles and habits to be able to write and update workflow and technical documentation as required on time
• Possess a strong sense of responsibility, good learning ability, communication ability and self-drive, good team spirit

Preferred Qualifications

• Engaged in the operation and maintenance of large-scale ML distributed systems
• Experience in operation and maintenance of GPU servers

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.
ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT

1. Responsible for ensuring our ML systems are operating and running efficiently for large model development, training, evaluation, and inference
2. Responsible for the stability of offline tasks/services in multi-data center, multi-region, and multi-cloud scenarios
3. Responsible for resource management and planning, cost and budget, including computing and storage resources
4. Responsible for global system disaster recovery, cluster machine governance, stability of business services, resource utilisation improvement and operation efficiency improvement
5. Build software tools, products and systems to monitor and manage the ML infrastructure and services efficiently
6. Be part of the global team roster that ensures system and business on-call support