5 days ago
Base Salary
$271k - $347k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive multi-year technical vision and architecture for reliable, extensible large-scale product systems.
- Solve complex cross-system engineering problems across organizational boundaries and abstraction layers.
- Establish coding standards, architectural patterns, technical foundations, reliability standards, performance guardrails, and quality frameworks.
- Lead cross-functional, organization-wide technical initiatives from vision through execution, aligning stakeholders and dependencies.
- Build technical safeguards for privacy, security, and integrity vulnerabilities in partnership with compliance and policy teams.
- Mentor, recruit, and develop engineers while improving engineering culture and standards.
- Communicate technical strategies and trade-offs to individual contributors, cross-functional partners, and executive leadership.
- Identify systemic failure patterns and develop architectural improvements that prevent recurring classes of problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 12 years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale software systems in high-traffic production environments.
- At least 12 years of programming experience solving complex, cross-system technical problems through direct implementation.
- Experience leading multi-year technical roadmaps and cross-organizational engineering initiatives.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams through written proposals, architectural reviews, and stakeholder alignment.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering culture through programs, standards, and coaching.
- Preferred: technical contributions to the privacy or security community and experience with privacy, security, data strategy, or AI domains.
- Preferred: experience with responsible AI practices, AI workflow optimization, prompt/context engineering, or agent orchestration.
- Preferred: GRC, controls, assurance testing, audit, regulatory, legal, or counsel experience involving technical matters.
- Preferred: experience translating regulatory, legal, or control requirements into technical standards or automated enforcement.
- Preferred: experience implementing or assessing GDPR, CCPA, or equivalent privacy regulations at scale.
- Preferred: experience shipping products to many millions of customers and serving as a company-wide privacy-domain expert.
- Preferred: experience designing frameworks, standards, or assessment methodologies adopted beyond the originating organization.
- Preferred: experience in Application Security/Privacy, incident response, or adversarial testing.
Benefits
- Base salary of $271,000/year to $347,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.
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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.