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.
About the Security Assurance Team at ByteDance
The team is missioned to build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team, you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference.
Responsibilities
- Research, design, develop, test, maintain and continuously improve the in-house vulnerability scanning system, and develop Proof of Concept plugin for it.
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
- Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software security testing and validation procedures.
- Work with multiple cross-functional global teams to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements, to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
- Incident response when 0day/Nday vulnerabilities happen.
- Research on new vulnerability testing technology.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Familiar with common web security vulnerabilities, and have a deep understanding of vulnerability principles and detection methods.
2. Proficient in Python or Go programming languages, familiar with Linux development environment.
3. Familiar with at least one middleware such as Redis, mySQL, MongoDB.
4. Master distributed system and multi-threaded development, and have experience in large-scale distributed system development and tuning.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Experience of software R&D in large-scale tech companies.
2. Self-driven, with good teamwork and communication skills.
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.
