Data Engineer, Technical Leadership (ranking, Ai)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Meta's Ranking AI team is seeking a Data Engineer with technical leadership to support building a platform for recommendation systems AI in their Ads stack. The role involves developing new modeling architectures, leveraging large-scale data, and translating research into production. The candidate will drive data foundation vision, own data architecture, build cross-functional relationships, and integrate AI tools to optimize workflows. Experience with AI skill development and ethical AI practices is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Proactively drive the vision for data foundation and analytics to accelerate building and improvement of cross platform components across Instagram, and define and execute on plan to achieve that vision
  2. Conceptualize and own the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects, while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems
  3. Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve
  4. Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers and Software Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs
  5. Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years experience in the data warehouse space
  • 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
  • 10+ years experience with object-oriented programming languages
  • 10+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
  • 10+ years experience in authoring SQL statements
  • Experience analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies
  • Experience managing and communicating data warehouse plans to cross-functional stakeholders
  • Experience driving projects independently within distributed, global teams
  • Experience working with either a MapReduce or an MPP system
  • Knowledge and practical application of Python

Nice to have

  • prompt/context engineering
  • agent orchestration

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices

Other signals

  • Developing new modeling architectures
  • Translating research to production
  • Building out a great platform for the future of computing
  • Integrating AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development