Production Engineer

Meta; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company seeks a Production Engineer to develop and maintain infrastructure for critical services. Responsibilities include owning back-end services and writing high-quality code. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and over 7 years of experience in UNIX and coding. This role offers collaboration with top engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• 7+ years of coding experience.
• Experience with development languages PHP, Python, C++, and Java.

Responsibilities

• Own back-end services like Hadoop and front-end services like Messenger.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans.
• Participate in on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.

Skills

UNIX network fundamentals

TCP/IP network fundamentals

Coding in PHP

Coding in Python

Coding in C++

Coding in Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Apache

Memcached

MySQL

DNS

Job description

Overview

Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently. PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing high‑quality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide. Our PEs are embedded in teams across the spectrum — from products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Videos to critical backend services such as Storage, Cache, and Networking. The team brings together diverse levels of experience and backgrounds. Working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you’ll contribute to code and systems that go into production and are used by millions every day. In Production Engineering at Meta, we navigate uncharted waters daily — solving problems at a scale few others face.

Responsibilities

1. Own back-end services like our Hadoop data warehouses, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between

2. Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world

3. Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents

4. Partnered alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by millions of users all around the world

Minimum Qualifications

1. Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

2. 7+ years of experience in UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals

3. 7+ years of coding experience

4. Experience learning development languages (PHP, Python, C++, and Java)

5. Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs

6. Experience performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures

7. Knowledge in internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN’s)

8. Experience in configurating and maintaining of applications such as Apache, Memcached, Squid, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP

9. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

1. BS or MS in Computer Science

Industry

Internet