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Production Engineer

Meta
Menlo Park, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Feb 2026

About the role

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.

Responsibilities
Write and review code, develop documentation, operability features, capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world.
* Partner with the best engineers in the industry on some of the highest scale stuff around, the code and systems you work with are full production systems supporting our billions of users all around the world, with APIs consumed directly or indirectly by most engineering teams across the company.
* Drive improvements in efficiency, operability, scalability, performance, security and privacy across multiple distributed teams while merging their systems into a single sustainable global storage fabric.

Qualifications
Requires 60 months of experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation
* Requires 60 months of experience in the following:
* UNIX or Linux operating system fundamentals
* TCP/IP network fundamentals
* Coding in at least one of the following higher-level programming languages: PHP, Python, C++, or Java
* Software frameworks and APIs
* Performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures
* Internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, or CDN’s)
* Configuring and maintaining applications using at least one of the following: web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, or messaging systems
* Relational Databases including MySQL
* Network protocols including at least one of the following: NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP
* Maintaining web-based applications using at least one of the following: Apache, Memecached, or Squid
* Storage Systems including NFS
* Network Management tools like DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP
* Diagnosing and troubleshooting issues ranging from low-level hardware issues to large scale failures within datacenter clusters and
* Experience utilizing high performance query engines (Presto or Spark) for big data

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