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# Data Center Network Automation Engineer

- **Company:** BYTEDANCE INC.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $162,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Network Operating System (NOS), Common Lisp Object Systems, Computer Programming, Databases, Data Centers, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Information Sciences, IPv4, IPv6, Multi-protocol Systems, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Routing, Network Virtualization, Network Protocols, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Recommender Systems, Broadcom, Software Engineering, Software Systems, TCP/IP, System Availability, Juniper, Data Center Networking, Information Technology, SDN Network, Cisco
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.gamesjobsdirect.com/job/bytedance/data-center-network-automation-engineer/353830

## About the Role

Minimum Qualifications: - 3+ years of hands-on experience in datacenter network deployment, operations, or automation software development. - Bachelor's or above, majoring in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline. - Good understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS and MPLS related technologies. - Familiar with data center network architecture, such as CLOS, with experience in Network OS Product Life Cycles and Standard Validation approaches Preferred Qualifications: - In-depth knowledge of network protocols and implementation in hyper scale data center networks. - In-depth knowledge of MPLS related Traffic Engineering technologies, such as Segment Routing, RSVP, and LDP etc. - Familiar with mainstream commercial switch/router chipsets, such as Broadcom, Barefoot etc. - Good understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 co-existence technologies. - Hands-on experience of major network devices, such as Cisco, Arista,
Juniper, H3C, Huawei and other mainstream vendors.

## Description

About the Team ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe. ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale. Responsibilities - Develop Programming/scripting in Python to enhance automation and improve efficiency in IDC network implementation and operations. - Analyze network data and create software solutions by applying
principles and techniques from computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis. - Work closely with software development teams to design automated operational solutions and drive problem solving. - Stay updated with the network automation related techniques and methodologies. - Work with cross-functional teams including but not limited to compute, storage, database, recommendation system, drive the innovation and evolution of ByteDance network. - Travel may require up to 15% - 30% of the time.


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