Production Engineer

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Production Engineer to help scale our infrastructure powering billions of users. You’ll write high‑quality code, optimize production systems, and collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability, performance and scalability.

You’ll own backend services, tuning Memcache, databases, and messaging, and participate in on‑call rotations to resolve live incidents. We value strong fundamentals in software engineering, experience with large‑scale systems, and a

Qualifications

• Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs.
• Engineering degree, or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems.
• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g. Python, Rust, PHP, C++).

Responsibilities

• Own back-end services and infrastructure components across the stack.
• Write and review code, develop docs and capacity plans, and debug production issues live.
• Share on-call rotation with the engineering team.
• Collaborate with top engineers on production-ready code used by millions of users.

Skills

APIs & frameworks

Coding languages

Live production debugging

On-call rotation

Education

BS/MS in CS

Tools

Web servers

Load balancers

Databases

Memcache/Storage systems

Job description

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.

Production Engineer Responsibilities:

• Own back-end services like our container fleet management systems, front-end services like Chat and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between
• 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
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation
• 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:

• Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
• Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g. Python, Rust, PHP, C++)

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

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.

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.