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Site Reliability Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM-eligible degree fields, making them a strong fit for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and co-sign your I-983 training plan. With 36 months of total OPT authorization, you have a realistic runway to transition to long-term sponsorship.
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San Jose
Team:
Infrastructure
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Code:
A231689
Responsibilities
The Global System Service team owns the infrastructure services and management solutions that power ByteDance's data centers outside of China — from day-to-day operations to long-term architecture design and maintenance. The team specializes in composing end-to-end solutions by drawing on both open-source community tools and in-house developed products, tailored to both the business requirements and the operational complexities of large-scale infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China regions. Our mission is to deliver efficient infrastructure solutions and a stable, secure system environment for ByteDance's global business.
We are looking for a self-motivated system engineer that is equipped with SRE mindset and DevOps skills. Your responsibilities will include:
- Manage and maintain large-scale host infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China data centers, covering OS lifecycle management, configuration standardization, and fleet-wide health monitoring.
- Own the reliability and availability of core data center foundational services, including DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository, and Kerberos authentication.
- Design and implement deployment architectures for foundational services, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across regions.
- Develop and enforce SLOs for managed services; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews to drive continuous reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with network, security, and application teams to ensure foundational services meet the evolving demands of global business growth.
- Identify automation opportunities across host management and service operations; drive tooling and process improvements to reduce toil and increase operational efficiency.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors.
- Solid experience in large-scale Linux host management, including OS deployment, configuration management, patching, and fleet operations.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of core data center foundational services: DNS (BIND/PowerDNS), NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository management, and Kerberos.
- Proficiency with DevOps tooling, including configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with SRE principles and practices, including SLO/SLI definition, error budget management, and blameless post-mortems.
- Solid understanding of high availability design patterns, active-active/active-passive architectures, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the Linux system stack and network layer.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience managing host fleets at scale (thousands of nodes or above) in a production environment.
- Scripting or development experience in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.
- Exposure to hybrid or multi-region data center environments.
Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life – a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Location:
San Jose
Team:
Infrastructure
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Code:
A231689
Responsibilities
The Global System Service team owns the infrastructure services and management solutions that power ByteDance's data centers outside of China — from day-to-day operations to long-term architecture design and maintenance. The team specializes in composing end-to-end solutions by drawing on both open-source community tools and in-house developed products, tailored to both the business requirements and the operational complexities of large-scale infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China regions. Our mission is to deliver efficient infrastructure solutions and a stable, secure system environment for ByteDance's global business.
We are looking for a self-motivated system engineer that is equipped with SRE mindset and DevOps skills. Your responsibilities will include:
- Manage and maintain large-scale host infrastructure across ByteDance's non-China data centers, covering OS lifecycle management, configuration standardization, and fleet-wide health monitoring.
- Own the reliability and availability of core data center foundational services, including DNS, NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository, and Kerberos authentication.
- Design and implement deployment architectures for foundational services, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across regions.
- Develop and enforce SLOs for managed services; lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews to drive continuous reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with network, security, and application teams to ensure foundational services meet the evolving demands of global business growth.
- Identify automation opportunities across host management and service operations; drive tooling and process improvements to reduce toil and increase operational efficiency.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors.
- Solid experience in large-scale Linux host management, including OS deployment, configuration management, patching, and fleet operations.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of core data center foundational services: DNS (BIND/PowerDNS), NTP, DHCP, NAT, APT repository management, and Kerberos.
- Proficiency with DevOps tooling, including configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with SRE principles and practices, including SLO/SLI definition, error budget management, and blameless post-mortems.
- Solid understanding of high availability design patterns, active-active/active-passive architectures, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the Linux system stack and network layer.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience managing host fleets at scale (thousands of nodes or above) in a production environment.
- Scripting or development experience in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.
- Exposure to hybrid or multi-region data center environments.
Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
-
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
-
Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
-
Exercising sound judgment.
About us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life – a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Site Reliability Engineer
Verify your CIP code matches SRE
Your STEM OPT eligibility depends on your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Systems CIP codes all support SRE roles. Cross-check your I-20 against the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List before applying.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Only employers actively enrolled in E-Verify can legally employ STEM OPT students. Search the E-Verify employer search tool by company name before your final interview round, not after you receive an offer letter.
Build your I-983 training plan around SRE competencies
Your I-983 must list specific learning objectives tied to your STEM degree. For SRE roles, document skills like distributed systems reliability, incident response, and infrastructure automation rather than generic job duties. Your DSO reviews and approves this before your extension starts.
Target companies with active H-1B LCA filings
Employers filing Labor Condition Applications for SRE and DevOps roles have an established sponsorship process. Use Migrate Mate to filter by employers with verified H-1B visa LCA history in software infrastructure roles, so you're applying where a transition pathway already exists.
Request the I-129 filing timeline during offer negotiation
USCIS cap-subject H-1B petitions are filed in April for an October 1 start. If your STEM OPT expires before October 1 and you're selected in the lottery, the cap-gap provision extends your work authorization automatically. Ask your employer's immigration team about their filing calendar before you sign.
Use O*NET to document the specialty occupation case
SRE roles must qualify as a specialty occupation requiring a STEM bachelor's degree or higher. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for your specific job title and confirm the education requirements align with your degree field before your employer files any petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Site Reliability Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, SRE roles typically qualify because they require a STEM degree in fields like Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems, all of which appear on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List. Your qualifying degree field is tied to the CIP code on your I-20, not your job title. Confirm the match with your DSO before your employer files the I-983 training plan.
What does my employer need to do to support my STEM OPT as an SRE?
Your employer must be actively enrolled in E-Verify and must co-sign your I-983 training plan, which documents the specific SRE skills and learning objectives you'll develop on the job. The employer also certifies that your compensation and hours are comparable to similarly situated U.S. workers. USCIS and ICE can audit these records, so both sides need to keep copies throughout your STEM OPT period.
How does cap-gap work if my STEM OPT expires before October 1?
If your employer files an H-1B cap-subject petition on your behalf before your STEM OPT end date and you're selected in the lottery, the cap-gap provision automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that year. You can continue working in your SRE role during this period without interruption. USCIS provides specific guidance on cap-gap eligibility on their website.
Can I switch SRE employers while on STEM OPT?
Yes, but you must report the employer change to your DSO within 10 days, and your new employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify. You'll need a new I-983 training plan co-signed by the new employer before your start date. Any gap in employment can raise compliance issues, so coordinate the transition timing carefully with both your current employer and your DSO.
Where can I find SRE employers already set up to hire STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters Site Reliability Engineer jobs by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and H-1B LCA filing history, so you're not spending time on companies that have never sponsored work authorization. You can search by role, location, and employer sponsorship track record to prioritize applications where the infrastructure for hiring STEM OPT students is already in place.