Meta

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

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21 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for addressing actors and coordinated networks that violate integrity policies.
  • Scale the end-to-end integrity lifecycle across violations and products while establishing extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
  • Set technical direction in ambiguous, high-pressure areas involving adaptive adversaries and cross-organizational challenges.
  • Partner with product, analytics, legal, policy, compliance, and other teams to develop scalable integrity solutions and trusted success metrics.
  • Lead cross-functional, organization-wide engineering initiatives, managing stakeholders, dependencies, milestones, and outcomes.
  • Develop and operationalize reliability standards, performance guardrails, quality frameworks, invariants, and architectural improvements.
  • Recruit, develop, mentor, and provide technical guidance to engineers across the organization.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience building large-scale applications or similar experience.
  • 12+ years of programming experience.
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
  • Experience driving large cross-functional or industry-wide engineering efforts.
  • Experience mentoring and influencing engineers across organizations.
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps that connect shorter-term projects to a long-term vision.
  • Preferred experience partnering with legal, policy, or compliance teams on privacy, security, or integrity requirements.
  • Preferred experience delivering major product-system improvements through architectural rethinking or ground-up rebuilds.
  • Preferred experience defining reliability, performance, or quality frameworks adopted at organizational or company-wide scale.
  • Preferred experience using AI-assisted development practices and agent-based workflows to improve engineering productivity.
  • Preferred experience building detection, classification, or enforcement systems for abuse, fraud, or safety harms at consumer scale.
  • Preferred experience with adversarial problems, trust and safety, risk, fraud, security, or regulated-domain engineering.

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About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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