Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership)

Meta; City of Westminster; Vor Ort; GBP 150.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join the Central Integrity team to design and deploy systems that detect and disrupt harm at a global scale. You will collaborate with leaders to shape long-term roadmaps, drive cross-company initiatives, and mentor executives while integrating AI tools to optimize workflows and reduce risk.

You will tackle high-stakes engineering challenges, including safeguarding child safety, fraud prevention, identity integrity, and frontier threats, leveraging

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 8+ years with a PhD.
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions.
• Experience driving large cross-functional, industry-wide engineering efforts.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps aligning short-term projects with long-term mission.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows and drive measurable impact.
• Experience adhering to responsible, ethical AI practices (risk assessment, bias mitigation).
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI tech.
• 8+ years in building large-scale infrastructure applications.
• Experience improving quality through code reviews, testing, rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes.
• Experience in languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages like Python or JavaScript.

Aufgaben

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to improve organizational efficiency.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry and company trends to assess and develop new technologies.
• Partner with leaders to improve team and organizational performance.
• Identify opportunities for staffing and prioritization across the organization.
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmaps for cross-company initiatives.
• Gather and synthesize requirements to create an effective feature roadmap.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues and reduce technical debt.

Kenntnisse

Executive stakeholder mentoring

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional engineering leader

AI tool integration

Large-scale infrastructure

Programming in C/C++/Java

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Python

Java

JavaScript

Jobbeschreibung

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our Central Integrity team, which exists to keep billions of people safe on Meta's platforms. We design and deploy systems that detect and disrupt harm at an unprecedented global scale, making this one of the largest deployments of AI for positive real-world impact anywhere in the industry. Our work safeguards critical areas, including child and youth safety, fraud and scams, identity and authenticity, and more, while actively building defenses against novel frontier threats, such as autonomous AI agents and automated risk vectors. This represents some of the most technically demanding and high-stakes engineering and product at Meta, driven by a deeply mission-focused team. You'll combine strong engineering fundamentals with cutting-edge AI to build effective, adaptable solutions that stay ahead of evolving integrity and safety risks. If you are driven by hard technical challenges and want your work to deliver immediate, real-world
impact, this is the right role for you.

1. 4. Partner and collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team and organization.
2. 5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization and influence the appropriate people for staffing and prioritizing these new ideas.
3. 6. Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
4. 7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
5. 8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

1. 1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
2. 2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
3. 3. Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies.

Qualifications:

1. 9. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
2. 10. 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 8+ years of experience with a PhD
3. 11. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
4. 12. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
5. 13. Experience driving large cross-functional, industry-wide engineering efforts
6. 14. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
7. 15. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission,
8. 16. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
9. 17. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
10. 18. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
11. 19. 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
12. 20. Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
13. 21. Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Hack