Production Engineering - Menlo Park, United States - Meta

Description

Production Engineers at Facebook are hybrid software/systems engineers who ensure that Facebook's services run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth.

They are embedded in every one of Facebook's product and infrastructure teams, and are core participants in every significant engineering effort underway in the company.

Our team is comprised of varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new grads to industry. Relevant industry experience is important, but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We sail into uncharted waters every day at Facebook in Production Engineering, and we are always learning.
This position is full-time.

Production Engineering Responsibilities:

Own backend services like our Hadoop data warehouses, frontend services like Messenger and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between
Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
Together with your engineering team, you will share an oncall rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Partnered alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by millions of users all around the world

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
7+ years of experience in UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals
7+ years of coding experience
Experience learning development languages (PHP, Python, C++, and Java)
Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
Experience performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures
Knowledge in internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN's)

Preferred Qualifications:

BS or MS in Computer Science

About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world.

Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.