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, 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 Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyperscale datacenters. The team manages the end to end lifecycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions and various infrastructure services ensuring that they are scalable and are reliable.
About The Role
The team is looking for candidates with strong technical infrastructure backgrounds, passionate about engineering excellence, and providing effective and sustainable solutions with an eye to the future. You understand the challenges associated with deploying infrastructure at scale and have experience in designing systems and platforms that set the global standard for performance, availability, security, and cost. The work you do will influence processes globally.
Responsibilities
- To Participate and Review Data Center MEP Design and other necessary disciplines for new data center builds and data hall fitouts
- Create data hall layout plans and perform test fits to validate server capacity plans and failover calculations
- Participate in Testing and Commissioning Discussions to determine required tests to verify design elements.
- Support the DC Engineering FM team to become a Subject Matter Expert and understand how to overcome design limitations and risks.
- Conduct a periodic Audit or Assessment to access the effectiveness and practicality of the design in-use on our data centers
- Be our ambassador to explain data center infrastructure design to visitors
- To continually find ways to collaborate and break new ground to enhance MEP design to meet future needs.
- Continually maintain positive and collaborative working relations with partner teams, vendors, teammates, and internal customers.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant discipline.
- Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations necessary to determine capacity requirements (i.e., TIA-942, ASHRAE)
- Understand Power Redundancy and how it is implemented in design (i.e., 2N or N+1 Distributed Redundant)
- Experience with Cooling Redundancy and how Concurrent Maintainability is implemented in design (i.e, N+1 or N+2).
- Experience in the following areas:
- Lead or influence a Design and Architect team to complete Data Center Conceptual>30%>60%>90% Detailed Design Process.
- Practice Data Center Tiering Standards (i.e., TIA-942 Rated 3, or Uptime Tier 3) in a detailed design process.
- Lead or influence a construction team to complete Data Hall fit-out experience, including IT services Coordination, Power and Cooling Planning.
- Lead or influence a testing and commissioning team to perform L1 to L5 commissioning tests to validate the system design intent and resolve technical problems along the way.
- Electrical and/or mechanical engineering experience such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, UPS, electrical sub-distribution systems, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to clarity and detail.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to prioritize work and stay organized in a complex, fast-paced environment with high levels of ambiguity.
- Design experience in researching, developing, and writing equipment and designing layouts/specifications of server rooms, MDFs, IDFs, rackable equipment, and other modular or containerized IT infrastructure solutions.
- Vendor, projects or program engagement experience.
- Project/Program management experience
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.
