Global-Scale Production Engineering Leader

Meta; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in London seeks a Production Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Meta's production infrastructure and services. You will own the full lifecycle of systems, from capacity planning to incident response and automation.

You will drive technical strategy, champion AI-augmented workflows, and partner with software engineering, data science, and product teams to ensure services operate at global scale with high availability and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in production engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems software engineering.
• 2+ years managing production or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Experience driving reliability and scalability for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience coding in Python, C++, Go, or Bash and collaborating technically.
• Ability to set goals, manage roadmaps, and communicate infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team delivering reliability, scalability, and efficiency across interdependent systems.
• Drive roadmap for infrastructure reliability, capacity planning, and automation.
• Lead adoption of AI-augmented workflows across the team.
• Contribute hands-on to code, design reviews, and incident response.
• Partner with software, data science, and product teams to unblock dependencies.
• Identify and reduce on-call toil and automate repetitive tasks.
• Set goals, give feedback, and develop engineers' AI skills.
• Establish and monitor SLAs, reliability metrics, and engineering efficiency.
• Communicate health and strategy to leadership and stakeholders.
• Recruit and retain production engineering talent and minimize single points of failure.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Scalability

Operational efficiency

Team management

AI-augmented workflows

Incident response

Capacity planning

Automation

Code reviews

System design

Tools

Python

C++

Go

Bash

Job description

Meta in London seeks a Production Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Meta's production infrastructure and services. You will own the full lifecycle of systems, from capacity planning to incident response and automation.

You will drive technical strategy, champion AI-augmented workflows, and partner with software engineering, data science, and product teams to ensure services operate at global scale with high availability and