Software Engineer, Systems

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Software Engineer role focused on building and testing operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for large distributed systems at Meta.

What you'd actually do

  1. Research, design, develop, build and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for large distributed components that run applications.
  2. Build new features and improve existing products.
  3. Work on problems of diverse scope and design core, backend software components.
  4. Handle Facebook scale data storage, synchronization and coordination of large server cluster, and provide a runtime environment for front end Facebook code.
  5. Conduct design and code reviews.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Java
  • large-scale infrastructure applications
  • distributed systems
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Haskell
  • Relational databases and SQL
  • Software development tools
  • Linux, UNIX, or other *nix-like OS
  • Core web technologies: HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
  • Build highly-scalable performant solutions
  • Data processing
  • programming languages
  • databases
  • networking
  • operating systems
  • computer graphics
  • human-computer interaction
  • Applying algorithms and core computer science concepts to real world systems

Nice to have

  • C
  • C#
  • VIM or Emacs
  • Subversion, GIT, or Perforce

What the JD emphasized

  • Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field, and 3 years of work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation
  • Requires three years of experience in: Coding in one of the following industry-standard languages: C, C++, Java, or C#
  • Building large-scale infrastructure applications
  • Designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance
  • Experience owning a particular component, feature or system