Production Engineering Manager

Meta; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Production Engineering Manager in the United Kingdom to lead a team focused on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of production infrastructure and services.

You will drive strategies, own lifecycle improvements, and partner with software, data science, and product teams to ensure high availability at global scale. This role emphasizes AI-augmented workflows and strong leadership across multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in production engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience managing production engineering or infrastructure teams.
• Experience driving reliability and scalability improvements for large-scale distributed systems, including incident management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Experience coding and debugging in Python, C++, Go, or Bash and contributing technically alongside a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across multiple production systems.
• Drive roadmaps for infrastructure reliability initiatives, capacity planning, and automation efforts.
• Lead adoption of AI-augmented engineering workflows across the team and share learnings with the org.
• Contribute hands-on to code, system design reviews, and incident response, leveraging AI tooling.

Skills

Production engineering

Site reliability engineering

Team leadership

Python

C++

Go

Bash

Incident management

Observability

Tools

Python

Go

C++

Bash

Job description

Meta is seeking a Production Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Meta's production infrastructure and services. In this role, you will manage a team of production engineers who own the full lifecycle of systems — from capacity planning and performance optimization to incident response and automation. You will drive technical strategy, champion AI-augmented workflows, and partner closely with software engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure Meta's services operate at global scale with high availability and efficiency.Production Engineering Manager Responsibilities:Manage a team of production engineers delivering on reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across multiple interdependent production systemsDrive roadmap creation for infrastructure reliability initiatives, capacity planning, and automation efforts, increasing team scope as AI-driven productivity improves throughputLead adoption of AI-augmented engineering workflows across the team, sharing learnings and best practices with the broader production engineering organizationContribute hands-on to technical work including code, system design reviews, and incident response, using AI tooling to expand personal and team reach across disciplinesPartner cross-functionally with software engineering, data science, and product teams to unblock dependencies and ensure smooth execution of infrastructure and reliability projectsProactively identify and resolve sources of operational toil — including on-call load, alerting gaps, and technical debt — and implement automation to increase team efficiency and scopeSet clear goals and expectations for individual team members, provide timely and actionable feedback, and actively develop engineers' skills including proficiency with AI-augmented workflowsEstablish and monitor service-level objectives, reliability metrics, and engineering efficiency indicators to maintain high engineering craft and product qualityCommunicate production system health, incident learnings, and infrastructure strategy effectively to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholdersRecruit, onboard, and retain production engineering talent, ensuring the team structure minimizes single points of failure and supports sustainable growthMinimum Qualifications:4+ years of experience in production engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems software engineering2+ years of experience managing production engineering or infrastructure engineering teamsExperience driving reliability and scalability improvements for large-scale distributed systems, including incident management, capacity planning, and performance optimizationExperience coding and debugging in at least one systems or scripting language (such as Python, C++, Go, or Bash) and contributing technically alongside a teamExperience setting team goals, managing execution against roadmaps, and communicating infrastructure strategy to technical and non-technical stakeholdersPreferred Qualifications:Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologiesTrack record of cross-functional collaboration with software engineering and data science teams to co-own reliability outcomes for consumer-facing or infrastructure servicesDemonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)Experience leading adoption of AI-assisted tooling or automation frameworks within an engineering team to expand operational scope and reduce toilExperience managing on-call rotations, defining service-level objectives, and implementing observability and alerting improvements at scaleFamiliarity with container orchestration, service mesh architectures, or large-scale deployment pipelines in a production environmentExperience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)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.