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# Software Engineer- Metadata Storage New

- **Company:** BYTEDANCE INC.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $162,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Distributed Systems, Metadata, Performance Tuning, Remote Direct Memory Access, Service Discovery, Apache Zookeeper, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Free and Open-Source Software, Software Coding, Nvme
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.gamesjobsdirect.com/job/bytedance/software-engineer-metadata-storage/357678

## About the Role

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelors or above degree in Computer Science or Equivalent. - Strong coding skills in C/C++ - Deep understanding of consensus protocols including Raft, Paxos, ZAB etc. - Hands-on experience with large scale distributed systems; capability of trouble-shooting and performance tuning. Preferred Qualifications - Proficiency in Go, Java or Rust. - Experience of maintaining and contributing to open source projects including ZooKeeper, Etcd etc. - Experience with compute / storage / network tech stacks, including Kubernetes, NVMe, SPDK/DPDK, TCP/UDP, RDMA.

## Description

About the Team: Our team plays a crucial role in the company's infrastructure landscape by offering a rich portfolio of highly available and ultimate-performance software components and foundation services to upper-level businesses. We are an international team looking for talented and passionate engineers at all levels to join us. Responsibilities: - Responsible for designing, developing, and operating ultra-performance metadata services, delivering key features including distributed coordination, distributed locking, metadata key-value storage, service discovery etc. - Responsible for developing automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions in both virtualized and bare-metal environments. - Responsible for providing metadata solutions for teams in the technical infrastructure areas (compute, storage, databases, etc.) and upper-layer business areas (advertising, payments, AI, etc.); driving cross-team collaborations for system architecture design and optimization for various
business use cases.


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