Data Engineer, Cloud and System (Seattle)

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.

Our Infrastructure Engineering team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale datacenters, managing the life cycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and are reliable.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify, collect, and integrate data from multiple sources, including APIs, logs, structured databases, and unstructured datasets.
• Develop and maintain robust ETL pipelines to process and transform large-scale data efficiently.
• Apply data validation, error analysis, and accuracy validation techniques to ensure data consistency and quality.
• Utilize algorithms and models to mine data, uncover insights, and solve key business problems related to performance, cost, stability and reliability.
• Design and implement data visualization solutions to support multiple business use cases and perspectives.
• Establish best engineering practices and work closely with Software Engineers, SREs and Finance.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 0-3 years of experience in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, or system operations (internship experience is a plus).
• Strong experience with SQL, Python, or Scala for data processing.
• Hands-on experience with ETL frameworks, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Spark, dbt).
• Experience working with big data technologies (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink, etc.).
• Knowledge of data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, or internal dashboarding solutions) is a plus.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI) and their data processing services.
• Exposure to machine learning models and predictive analytics for data-driven insights.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance standards.
  
  

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 $118657 - $237500 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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.