Software Engineer, Unified Datastore

Responsibilities

About Us

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 Unified Datastore team focuses on building services that serves as a compliant storage foundation of the ByteDance employee and user data. We aim to provide centralized management over data from various sources, and controlled compliant access to it. The team is focused on but not limited to building a unified data storage service, providing secure and compliant access to the data, auditing the access and creating AI-Native apps on top of the data.

What You Will Do

• Participate in and/or be responsible for the analysis of business and product requirements;
• Unified Data Storage - design, implement and maintain service components that support heterogeneous data sources.
• Data Governance - design, implement and maintain service components that support compliant data storage, access control and auditing.
• AI-Native apps - Inspire internal businesses using LLMs and CUI.
  
  

Qualifications

• Possess the ability to build and maintain complex systems, with solid technical skills;
• Have been responsible for the construction and overall maintenance of at least one complex system, with solid technical skills
• Proficient in common storage components in a backend service such as object storage systems, document storage systems, relational databases, caches, message queues, Flink, etc.;
• Proficient in at least one programming language, with Golang being preferred;
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Having a good understanding of the IAM system and hands on experience in building RBAC, ABAC, or PBAC system.
• Practical experience in implementing Prompt Engineering, Langchain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API, etc.;
• Proficient in knowledge graph, vector databases, vector recall, search recommendation engines;
• Experience in database and big data module development;
• Experience in legal and regulatory compliance practices both domestically and abroad;
  
  

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 $137750 - $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.