Tech Lead Manager - Authorization Product

Responsibilities

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.

Team Introduction

We are building the central and unified authorization service at Bytedance. The services we build and support include

• Authorization Product, which provides the customer-facing interface that's used by all Bytedance employees daily.
• Authorization Backend, which provides the unified and central authorization capability at Bytedance
  
  

We have an unique opportunity to drive Least Privilege Access Control on Bytedance Infrastructure and make it the most secure cloud in the industry. Experience with security is a plus, but not required for our positions, and we welcome any engineer with security mindset and passionate about building secure and scalable infra to talk to us!

We Have Four Major Initiatives In Our Team:

• Build the most secure, reliable and scalable infra that enables high-quality service.
• Enforce fine-grained access control to secure all Bytedance resources and assets.
• Provide intuitive, efficient and transparent access experience to our users.
• Govern the permissions with automation and tools that enforce the least-privileged access control.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Grow and manage the authorization engineering US team
• Set the product vision and strategy with product and business teams, and oversee the engineering roadmap.
• Effectively scale the engineering team by attracting and mentoring extraordinary people at various experience levels to grow a high performing and diverse team.
• Serve as a technical expert for requirements, design and implementation of company-wide authorization products and tools
• Serve as a technical expert for requirements, design and implementation of authorization products and tools
• Partner with Product, Operation team, Security/Legal/Compliance and other Bytedance Engineering teams to drive the company-wide authorization area
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors.
• 5 years of industry experience in a highly distributed environment, and experienced in the design and implementation of large scale backend systems
• 3 years of engineering leadership experience
• Experienced in driving collaboration across various functional teams on delivering shared goals.
• Creative problem-solving skills and excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
  
  

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 $210000 - $358000 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.