Production Engineer

Production Engineers at Meta are software engineers who focus on the reliability, scalability, performance, privacy and security of Meta Products - such as WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger and our business platforms such as Ads, Business Messaging and Commerce.

Through a deep understanding of production services, and a passion for automation, they allow our product teams to deliver new features quickly while maintaining an awesome user experience. They are embedded in Meta's product teams and are core participants in every significant engineering effort.

Our team members come with varying levels of experience and diverse backgrounds. Relevant industry experience is important (Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Systems Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Database Administrator or similar role), but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We sail into uncharted waters every day at Meta in Production Engineering, and we are always learning.

This position is full time.

Production Engineer (University Grad) Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of relevant product area, codebase, and/or systems
• Demonstrate proficiency in data analysis, programming and software engineering
• Produce high quality code with good test coverage, using modern abstractions and frameworks
• Work independently, use available resources to get unblocked, and complete tasks on-schedule by exercising strong judgement and problem solving skills
• Master Meta’s development standards from developing to releasing code in order to take on tasks and projects with increasing levels of complexity
• Actively seek and give feedback in alignment with Meta’s Performance Philosophy

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in *nix (Linux, BSDs, or another UNIX-like OS)
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Experience coding in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, Python, C++, PHP)
• Experience picking up software, frameworks and APIs
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• Experience with an RDBMS like MySQL or Postgres
• Knowledge of internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN's)
• Experience performing 'guerrilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures
• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and diverse points of view to determine a path forward
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment