Technical Support Engineer - Video Cloud

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 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.

Team Introduction

The Video Cloud department is primarily responsible for ensuring the quality of all video services related to our video infrastructure. It supports key platforms such as Douyin, Xigua, Toutiao, TikTok, Dali Education, and other popular apps. The Multimedia Middle Platform (Video Cloud) is one of the world's leading video platforms, offering services like media storage, transcoding, and streaming. Our goal is to develop the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live broadcasting network to deliver an outstanding experience to billions of users globally. This role requires a deep understanding of the video cloud business architecture to help both internal and external stakeholders improve product knowledge, drive product enhancements, and deliver optimal solutions that leverage our product capabilities. As a technical expert, you will collaborate closely with the Product R&D team to continually optimize products, tools, and processes.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design and develop video cloud-based solutions.
• Collaborate with developers to address issues encountered during integration with video cloud services, as well as resolve quality problems in the production service process.
• Manage supplier requirements, identify integration challenges with suppliers, drive the development and optimisation of technical specifications, and minimise service-related issues.
• Maintain a holistic view, assist in establishing a Quality Service (QS) evaluation system, enhance the efficiency of issue resolution, and effectively address quality and efficiency challenges in the research and development process.
• Organise key learning points and compile a developer handbook to create a shared knowledge base for the solution team.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or other related majors, with solid fundamental computer science knowledge, strong logical thinking and learning abilities, and understanding of software design patterns
• Good professional accomplishment and self-drive, strong technical enthusiasm, able to continue learning and self-improvement
• Having excellent data analytical skills, issue identification ability, with prior experience in full-chain data collation and data-related tools
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Good knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols (eg. TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, etc.)
• Familiar with audio & video multimedia protocol, CDN distribution acceleration, RTC and other technologies
• Experience in project management, video cloud related experience or enterprise integration 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.