Principal Engineer, Infrastructure & Strategic Tech Leadership

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people worldwide. As a member of our team, you will manage complex technical problems, drive architectural direction and deliver scalable features across mobile and web platforms.

This leadership role requires strong collaboration with product and research partners, excellent communication, and a proven ability to plan multi-year roadmaps that ladder to our long-term mission.

Qualifications

• Leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Data-driven problem solving and solution feedback.
• Experience mentoring engineers across organizations.
• Proven ability to plan multi-year roadmaps aligning with mission.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical strategy and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional work

Data analysis

Mentoring

Communication

Roadmap planning

C/C++

Java

Python

Job description

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people worldwide. As a member of our team, you will manage complex technical problems, drive architectural direction and deliver scalable features across mobile and web platforms.

This leadership role requires strong collaboration with product and research partners, excellent communication, and a proven ability to plan multi-year roadmaps that ladder to our long-term mission.