Software Engineer (leadership) - Infrastructure

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +2

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join their teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. This role involves overseeing complex technical problems, building new features, and improving existing products across various platforms. The engineer will lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts, identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and reduce technical debt. The role also requires integrating AI tools to optimize workflows and adhering to responsible AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
  2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
  3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
  4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
  5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas

Skills

Required

  • programming experience in a relevant language
  • mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders
  • utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems
  • driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • planning multi-year roadmap
  • programming languages such as C, C++, or Java
  • scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
  • building large-scale infrastructure applications
  • improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
  • integrating AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows
  • implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • ongoing AI skill development
  • prompt/context engineering
  • agent orchestration
  • staying current with emerging AI technologies

Nice to have

  • PhD

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
  • Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
  • Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
  • 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience