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Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a Software Engineer (Leadership) to join their Infrastructure team. This role involves driving technical direction, mentoring senior engineers, and leading impactful projects that enhance organizational efficiency. The successful candidate will contribute to large-scale distributed systems that serve millions of requests per second, ensuring fault tolerance and high performance. Join a team that is shaping the future of social technology, where your skills and leadership will make a significant difference in building scalable platforms. If you're passionate about tackling complexity and driving engineering excellence, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
Extensive experience coding in C, C++, Java and/or C#.

Responsibilities

Drive the team's goals and technical direction.
Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for cross-company efforts.

Skills

C++

Java

Project Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Technical Communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

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Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team. The Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team builds large distributed components that run Facebook. Our code serves millions of requests per second and it does so with sub-second latency and in a fault-tolerant manner. We handle everything from Facebook scale data storage, to synchronization and coordination of large server clusters, to providing a runtime environment for front end Facebook code. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.

Software Engineer (Leadership) - Infrastructure 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 the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
Extensive experience coding in C, C++, Java and/or C#
Significant experience building server applications

Preferred Qualifications:

B.S. Computer Science or related technical field
Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet

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