Staff Systems Engineer - Large-Scale, High-Performance Infra

Meta Careers

Greater London

On-site

GBP 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Meta Careers in the United Kingdom seeks a Staff Systems Software Engineer to design the foundational infrastructure powering billions of users. You will architect and implement large-scale distributed systems, low-latency platform components, and high-performance services across Meta's core stack.

You will drive reliability, performance, and scalability, collaborating with product, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver highly available systems at global scale.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in large-scale distributed systems or systems software.
  • Experience leading major technical initiatives end-to-end.
  • Proficient in debugging complex non-reproducible issues.
  • Experience defining SLOs and improving reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement large-scale distributed systems and platform components.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives, architecture design, rollout, and reliability ownership.
  • Drive performance, reliability, and scalability across production systems.

Skills

Distributed systems
C/C++/Rust
AI tooling integration
Observability
SLOs and reliability
Cross-team leadership
Low-latency optimization
High-performance services
System design leadership

Job description

Meta Careers in the United Kingdom seeks a Staff Systems Software Engineer to design the foundational infrastructure powering billions of users. You will architect and implement large-scale distributed systems, low-latency platform components, and high-performance services across Meta's core stack.

You will drive reliability, performance, and scalability, collaborating with product, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver highly available systems at global scale.

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