2 months ago
Base Salary
$347k - $403k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term technical vision and architecture for critical systems infrastructure across multiple engineering organizations.
- Solve complex systems-level problems spanning teams, abstraction layers, and multiple parts of the technology stack.
- Establish architectural foundations, coding standards, systems design principles, performance targets, reliability guardrails, and quality standards.
- Lead complex migration, renewal, and foundational technology evolution projects in mature, high-scale environments.
- Develop systemic defenses and invariants addressing reliability, security, and correctness issues.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and cross-functional leaders to turn ambiguous requirements into durable systems solutions.
- Mentor engineers into cross-functional technical leaders and contribute to recruiting engineers with critical systems expertise.
- Apply AI-native workflows and define measurement frameworks for cross-team systems initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of systems software engineering experience, including large-scale distributed systems, operating systems, storage systems, or networking infrastructure.
- Experience architecting and owning globally scaled critical systems with measurable reliability, performance, and engineering-efficiency impact.
- Experience leading multi-year technical strategy and roadmap development across organizational boundaries.
- Experience resolving systemic bugs, performance regressions, or reliability issues across systems and abstraction layers.
- Experience influencing technical direction and engineering culture across large organizations through broadly adopted standards and practices.
- Preferred: experience with responsible AI practices, foundational-system rearchitecture, open-source contributions, published research, engineering-excellence programs, AI workflow optimization, prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, and applying AI or machine learning to systems problems.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Meta
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.