About the Company
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
As part of the Security Engineering team, we are responsible for supporting the company's construction of security capabilities and platform services, combining other teams to create efficient and high-quality service docking capabilities, enhancing interactive experience, and lowering the user's barriers to understanding and using security services.
Job Responsibilities
We are looking for Security Backend Software Engineers to join our Security Engineering R&D team in building the next-generation of ByteDance's risk analysis infrastructure that furthers our system security and user data privacy protection level, which will impact all ByteDance's products globally. In addition, you will also have opportunities to work closely with product/SRE/Ops teams across the world. Together we will identify opportunities, define innovative ways to build our users a safe and trustworthy environment, and help us shape the future of ByteDance.
- Research, design, develop, test, maintain and continuously improve backend infrastructures and product extensions of the security system
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, implement the principle of least privilege with techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
- Update software, enhances existing the current security system capabilities, and develops and directs software testing and validation risk analysis procedures.
- Work with multiple cross-functional global teams to integrate software systems, develop specifications and performance requirements, to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors.
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- 5+ years of security engineering experience such as design review, data collecting, threat modeling, risk analysis, security tooling development or privacy engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one server library / framework like Express, Koa, Gin, Kite, Django, etc and at least one kind of database like MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Hive, ClickHouse, ES, etc and at least one kind of message queue like Kafka, RocketMQ, etc
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general purpose programming languages
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.)
- Experience in building large scale distributed systems in a product environment is a plus
- Experience in the design and implementation of security solutions, systems and mechanisms is a plus.
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.
