[eric-hu]

> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC.

What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?

[thebigwinning]

Speculation

- power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux

[lopkeny12ko]

This 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]

For the app, no.

Server side, at a big enough scale, it might make sense for optimization, tuning, measuring, resolving weird bugs, etc.

[thebigwinning]

The technical beast is the internet infrastructure. The phone client is nothing.

[eating555]

BYTEDANCE 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.

[diebeforei485]

Same reason Twitter and Meta have kernel engineers - for their backend.