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Production Engineer

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1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services, frontend services, data warehouses, caching infrastructure, and other production systems.
  • Write and review code, develop documentation, and create capacity plans.
  • Debug complex problems in live production environments.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and serve as an escalation contact for service incidents.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to operate systems used by millions of users worldwide.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of internet service architectures such as load balancing, LAMP, and CDNs.
  • Experience configuring and maintaining Apache, Memcached, Squid, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP.
  • Experience learning software, frameworks, and APIs.
  • Experience learning PHP, Python, C++, and Java.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 7 years of coding experience and at least 7 years of experience with UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals.
  • Experience with capacity planning for internet service architectures.
  • Preferred: BS or MS in Computer Science.
  • Preferred: experience using AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows, implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, and developing skills in prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopC++JavaMySQLPHPPython

Categories

Meta

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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