Site Reliability Engineer (Seed Model - Infrastructures - SRE)

Location :

San Jose

Team :

Technology

Employment Type :

Regular

Job Code :

A204666

Responsibilities

About the Team

The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models. The Seed Infra SRE team is responsible for the delivery and stability of the compute infrastructure behind Seed's foundation models.

We own the reliability of large-scale heterogeneous GPU clusters, the training and inference platforms that run on them, and the capacity, network and storage systems that keep them running. Our work directly determines how fast and how reliably we can train and serve the models.

Responsibilities - Maintain the stable operation of machine learning systems and support the stages of large-model development, training and deployment. - Manage and plan the company's GPU resources, including cost and budget, across GPU / CPU machines, storage and related resources; provide resource data to support management decisions. - Drive stability governance for clusters and production services; improve resource utilization and operational efficiency through platform-based, systematic approaches. - Operate disaster recovery, service deployment and machine lifecycle management across multiple regions and data centers; provide a stable and efficient GPU operating environment. - Provide operational support for systems and services; participate in troubleshooting of production and system issues.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - 1+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineering projects. - Proficient in at least one or two of Go / Python / Shell in a Linux environment. - Experience operating resource management and job scheduling systems for distributed systems; familiar with the Kubernetes ecosystem and architecture. - Familiar with containerization technologies such as Docker / Kata. - Strong sense of ownership and responsibility, with excellent learning agility, communication, self-motivation, and teamwork skills, as well as strong analytical and logical thinking abilities to effectively abstract and break down complex business logic.

Preferred Qualifications - Hands-on experience operating GPU clusters or ML training / inference platforms. - Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, alerting) and on-call practices. - Contributions to automation or platform tooling that measurably improved resource utilization or operational efficiency.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 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 Doubao (Seed)

Established in 2023, the ByteDance Seed team is dedicated to pioneering new paths toward artificial general intelligence. We aspire to advance the frontier of intelligence to drive progress for both technology and society. ​

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With a long-term vision for the AI sector, the Seed team's research spans MLLM, GenMedia, AI for Science, and Robotics. We maintain a global presence with laboratories and career opportunities across China, Singapore, and the United States. To date, we have launched industry-leading general foundation models and cutting-edge multimodal capabilities.

Our technology powers over 50 application scenarios — including Doubao, Jimeng, TRAE, Dola and Dreamnia — and serves enterprise customers through Volcano Engine and BytePlus. Third-party data shows that the Doubao App ranks first in user volume in the Chinese market, while Doubao foundation models lead the industry in average daily token consumption. ​

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. ​

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users.

When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us. ​

Diversity & Inclusion ​

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. ​

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance 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://tinyurl.com/RA-request