Production Engineer at Meta

Sunnyvale, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Apr, 26

Salary

301000.0

Posted On

18 Jan, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Production Engineering, Software Development, Infrastructure Management, Capacity Planning, Networking, Kubernetes, MySQL, Debugging, Mentoring, Code Review, Problem Solving, Web Technologies, APIs, Linux, Java, Python

Industry

Software Development

Description

Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently. PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing high‑quality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide. Our PEs are embedded in teams across the spectrum — from products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Videos to critical backend services such as Storage, Cache, and Networking. The team brings together diverse levels of experience and backgrounds. Working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you’ll contribute to code and systems that go into production and are used by millions every day. In Production Engineering at Meta, we navigate uncharted waters daily — solving problems at a scale few others face. Responsibilities Own back-end services which handle fleet management, front-end services such as WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook / Meta Ads, infrastructure components that drive Meta’s advances in AI, core services which are used by every team at Meta, the world’s largest MySQL deployments, networking systems and everything in between Lead your engineering team by example, mentor and help others around you grow, be a force multiplier of impact 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 on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents Partner alongside the best engineers in the industry working on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of people all around the world Minimum Qualifications 10+ years of experience in *nix (Linux or another UNIX-like OS) and Network fundamentals 10+ years of coding experience in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, Python, C++, PHP/Hack, Rust, Go) Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs Experience with Internet service architecture capacity planning and/or handling needs for urgent capacity augmentation Knowledge of common web technologies and/or Internet service architectures (such as LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDN, Load Balancing techniques, etc.) Experience configuring and running infrastructure level applications, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, etc Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience Preferred Qualifications BS or MS in Computer Science $219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Production Engineers at Meta are responsible for owning back-end and front-end services, ensuring reliability and performance across various platforms. They lead engineering teams, mentor others, and tackle complex problems in live production environments.