Production Engineer

Meta • Menlo Park, CA

205d • $214,032 - $240,240

About The Position

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.

Requirements

• Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences, or a related field.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in UNIX or Linux operating system fundamentals.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in coding in PHP, Python, C++, or Java.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in software frameworks and APIs.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, or CDN's).
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in configuring and maintaining applications using web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, or messaging systems.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in relational databases including MySQL.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in network protocols including at NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in maintaining web-based applications using Apache, Memcached, or Squid.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in storage systems including NFS.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in network management tools like DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in diagnosing and troubleshooting issues ranging from low-level hardware issues to large scale failures within datacenter clusters.
• Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in utilizing high performance query engines (Presto or Spark) for big data.

Responsibilities

• Develop, design, create, modify, or test software services to ensure optimal performance and capacity for growth.
• Own back-end data warehouse services, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, and infrastructure components to ensure services run without incident.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the problems in real time in highly complex software systems.
• Serve as escalation contact for service incidents.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Develop and maintain software services required for the large-scale bootstrapping, provisioning, maintenance, and allocation of Edge capacity.
• Operate services to maintain reliability and health of remote servers.
• Investigate live incidents that affect user traffic in production.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
• Education Level: Master's degree