What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Software Engineer - CapCut - Seattle (SEA) position at ByteDance?
Responsibilities
About 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, 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
How we become the NO.1 video editing app
CapCut is an all-in-one video editing solution that helps you create incredible videos. With the mission of making content creation easier and more engaging, CapCut was first launched on mobile platforms in April 2020.
In less than a year, CapCut was released in Brazil, US, Indonesia, Japan and several other countries*. To better serve the diverse needs, CapCut released its online and PC version in 2022. Starting in 2023, CapCut has continued to invest in AI technology to provide product features that are more accessible and easier to use.
As of today, CapCut's global monthly active users have exceeded 500 million. It has remained at the top of the download list in several app stores.
*CapCut is currently available in over 170 countries/regions.
We enjoy learning new things and taking on challenges. Team culture here is open and inclusive. Everyone can make things happen, good ideas will always win.
Today, we are continuously increasing investment in AI technology to make content creation much easier for everyone, and we always take the protection of user privacy and data security very seriously. Therefore, we set up an engineer team with high talent density, mainly focusing on AI technology and Privacy&Security in CapCut.
Responsibilities:
1. Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services and tools to build/integrate Security & Privacy systems for CapCut.
2. Optimize backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability.
3. Deliver best-in-class engineering excellence practices across all product engineering disciplines.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
2. 3 years experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Golang/Java/Rust/C . Meeting the qualifications are also encouraged to apply.
3. Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.
4. In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.
5. Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
6. Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Experience of privacy and security technology is a big plus.
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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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/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $216600 - $342000 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.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About 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, 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
How we become the NO.1 video editing app
CapCut is an all-in-one video editing solution that helps you create incredible videos. With the mission of making content creation easier and more engaging, CapCut was first launched on mobile platforms in April 2020.
In less than a year, CapCut was released in Brazil, US, Indonesia, Japan and several other countries*. To better serve the diverse needs, CapCut released its online and PC version in 2022. Starting in 2023, CapCut has continued to invest in AI technology to provide product features that are more accessible and easier to use.
As of today, CapCut's global monthly active users have exceeded 500 million. It has remained at the top of the download list in several app stores.
*CapCut is currently available in over 170 countries/regions.
We enjoy learning new things and taking on challenges. Team culture here is open and inclusive. Everyone can make things happen, good ideas will always win.
Today, we are continuously increasing investment in AI technology to make content creation much easier for everyone, and we always take the protection of user privacy and data security very seriously. Therefore, we set up an engineer team with high talent density, mainly focusing on AI technology and Privacy&Security in CapCut.
Responsibilities:
1. Develop efficient, highly scalable and secured services and tools to build/integrate Security & Privacy systems for CapCut.
2. Optimize backend systems and services for data security, modularity, computational efficiency and scalability.
3. Deliver best-in-class engineering excellence practices across all product engineering disciplines.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
2. 3 years experience developing highly scalable backend services and systems using at least one of Golang/Java/Rust/C . Meeting the qualifications are also encouraged to apply.
3. Deep understanding of data structure, algorithm design and analysis, networking, data security and highly scalable systems design.
4. In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka etc.
5. Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.
6. Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Experience of privacy and security technology is a big plus.
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/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $216600 - $342000 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.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Salary : $216,600 - $342,000
