Production Engineering

Meta Meta · Big Tech · United States +1 · Remote

Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently. PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing high‑quality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide. The role involves owning back-end and front-end services, infrastructure components, core services, and large-scale database deployments. Qualifications include experience with web technologies, internet service architectures, capacity planning, infrastructure applications, coding in a standard language, and Unix/Linux fundamentals. A demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows, implement ethical AI practices, and develop ongoing AI skills is also required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own back-end services which handle fleet management, front-end services such as WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook / Meta Ads, infrastructure components that drive Meta’s advances in AI, core services which are used by every team at Meta, the world’s largest MySQL deployments, networking systems and everything in between
  2. Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
  3. Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
  4. Partner alongside the best engineers in the industry working on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of people all around the world

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of common web technologies and/or Internet service architectures (such as LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDN, Load Balancing techniques, etc.)
  • Experience with Internet service architecture capacity planning and/or handling needs for urgent capacity augmentation
  • Experience configuring and running infrastructure level applications, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, etc
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2+ years of coding experience in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, Python, C++, PHP/Hack, Rust, Go)
  • Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
  • 2+ years of experience in *nix (Linux or another UNIX-like OS) and Network fundamentals
  • BS or MS in Computer Science
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows
  • responsible, ethical AI practices
  • ongoing AI skill development