Production Engineer

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.Production Engineer Responsibilities

• Develop, design, create, modify, and/or test software services to ensure optimal performance and capacity for growth.
• Own back-end data warehouse services, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, and infrastructure components to ensure services run without incident.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the problems in real time in highly complex software systems.
• Serve as an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of next generation storage systems designed for HDD and Flash that are highly scalable and performant.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers and Product Managers to define project roadmap, set direction, align on milestones and drive project implementation.
• Develop observability strategies for responding to incidents that impact the storage systems availability and reliability in a timely manner to help provide a systematic and data-driven approach to ensure the reliability of storage systems.
• Define SLOs for the storage services and setup alerting to respond to production issues in a timely manner.
• Develop automation to help manage the lifecycle of servers, including automation tools for provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, remediation and decommissioning.
• Develop tools to help validate the storage systems for durability, correctness, performance and handling faults.
• This involves usage of tools like FIO, stress testing, and error injection frameworks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Networking, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences, or a related field and three years of work experience in job offered or computer-related occupation.
  Requires three years of experience in the following:
• 1. UNIX or Linux operating system fundamentals.
• 2. TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• 3. Coding in at least one of the following higher-level programming languages: PHP, Python, C++, or Java.
• 4. Software frameworks and APIs.
• 5. Performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures.
• 6. Internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, or CDN’s).
• 7. Configuring and maintaining applications using at least one of the following: web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, or messaging systems.
• 8. Relational Databases including MySQL.
• 9. Network protocols including at least one of the following: NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP.
• 10. Maintaining web-based applications using at least one of the following: Apache, Memecached, or Squid.
• 11. Storage Systems including NFS.
• 12. Network Management tools like DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP.
• 13. Diagnosing and troubleshooting issues ranging from low-level hardware issues to large scale failures within datacenter clusters.
• 14. Experience utilizing high performance query engines (Presto or Spark) for big data.

LocationsAbout Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps 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. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics. Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.