Senior Network Engineer, Backbone & Edge Ops

Meta; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Edge & Network Services team leads the deployment and operation of production networks across Edge, Backbone, Optical, and Datacenter infrastructure globally. You will be a hands-on network engineer focused on Backbone operations, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of production networks powering Meta’s services.

You will collaborate with design and architecture teams to implement scalable deployment standards, support field testing of new hardware and software, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience deploying, configuring, and operating large-scale production networks.
• Experience with physical network infrastructure including structured cabling and data center operations.
• Experience with multi-vendor networking environments and enterprise or hyperscale hardware.
• Experience with TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, IPv4 and IPv6.
• Experience troubleshooting routing and switching protocols including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and validate production network infrastructure across data centers and edge sites.
• Provide day-to-day on-call support for production network services.
• Plan maintenance activities: hardware upgrades, software migrations, decommissioning.
• Maintain as-built docs, asset inventory and configuration records.

Skills

Network engineering

On-call support

Automation tooling

Python scripting

Multi-vendor networks

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

BGP

IS-IS

MPLS

RSVP-TE

Job description

Meta’s Edge & Network Services team leads the deployment and operation of production networks across Edge, Backbone, Optical, and Datacenter infrastructure globally. You will be a hands-on network engineer focused on Backbone operations, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of production networks powering Meta’s services.

You will collaborate with design and architecture teams to implement scalable deployment standards, support field testing of new hardware and software, and