Manager, Production Engineering London, UK • Software Engineering • Production Engineering Lond[...]

Meta; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Manager for its Production Engineering team in London. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers, ensuring the reliability and performance of systems. Your responsibilities will include driving technical discussions, developing team skills, and collaborating across departments to create scalable infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of direct management experience in a technology role.
• Experience with systems and networking.
• Experience drafting and reviewing code.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead engineers and managers on scalability and reliability challenges.
• Drive technical architecture discussions and develop partnerships across teams.
• Assess employee performance and facilitate career development.

Skills

Management

Communication

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Meta’s Platform Security team builds solutions used to verify the integrity of our servers and the workloads that run on them. This is used for internal security controls and to power customer-facing offerings like WhatsApp Private Processing.We are a worldwide team of Software and Production Engineers with experience in the hardware and low-level systems. In supporting the team, you’ll work closely with our partners in Security Engineering, AI Infrastructure to provide the leadership direction and expertise necessary to translate emerging hardware features into a platform offering for Meta's product groups. You'll partner with teams across our larger Infrastructure org, including those responsible for hardware development, to bring these solutions to reality and help ensure the security and safety for all of our billions of users.Production Engineering is a hybrid software/systems group that ensures Meta's services and products run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with Meta's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions.Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization.

Manager, Production Engineering Responsibilities

Support and lead engineers and managers working on Meta's products and services, at different layers of the stack, on challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance and efficiency of systems

Understand and contribute to technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges

Drive technical architecture discussions, even on subjects you haven't had direct experience working with

Develop lasting partnerships with product management, program management, network engineering, software engineering and other related groups to build and improve our ever-growing large-scale distributed infrastructure and product environment

Empower engineers and managers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles

Help build and enrich a healthy work environment

Assess employee performance on an ongoing basis, address under-performance, and recognize and promote performance

Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team including interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees

Balance the need to “keep things running” with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of direct management experience in a technology role

BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

Experience with systems, networking, and troubleshooting

Experience drafting and reviewing code

Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance

Communication and cross-collaboration experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building Infrastructure product offerings

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice here .

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, fill out the Accommodations request form .

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