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> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC. What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?
by eric-hu 3y ago
> Linux Kernel Software Engineer
BYTEDANCE INC.
What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?
- thebigwinning 3y agoSpeculation - power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoThis doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app.
- DerSaidin 3y agoFor the app, no. Server side, at a big enough scale, it might make sense for optimization, tuning, measuring, resolving weird bugs, etc.
- thebigwinning 3y agoThe technical beast is the internet infrastructure. The phone client is nothing.
- diebeforei485 3y agoSame reason Twitter and Meta have kernel engineers - for their backend.
- eating555 3y agoBYTEDANCE submitted a patch few months ago to reduce the system reboot time for a few milliseconds. That means a lot for rebooting their hundreds of thousands of VMs.