Data Center Production Reliability Engineer (Equity)

Meta; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 111,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational health of server fleets and production systems that underpin Meta's family of apps and services.

You will monitor health with observability tooling, develop and refine runbooks and incident response playbooks, and partner with hardware, network and capacity teams on deployments and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data center operations or production infrastructure engineering.
• 6+ years of experience with server hardware components including CPUs, memory, storage, and NICs, with hands-on troubleshooting.
• Experience using systems monitoring and observability platforms to track fleet health and drive incident resolution.
• Experience developing or improving operational processes, runbooks, or automation scripts.
• Experience collaborating with hardware engineering, network, and capacity teams on deployments and lifecycle activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain large-scale server fleets across data center environments, including hardware triage and repair workflows.
• Monitor production systems health using observability tooling and telemetry data to identify anomalies before they impact service.
• Develop and refine operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and incident response playbooks for data center servers.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering, network operations, and capacity planning on deployment, decommissioning, and lifecycle transitions.
• Analyze failure trends and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce manual toil in provisioning, health checks, and fleet management.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements that increase efficiency and reduce MTTR.
• Communicate infrastructure status, incident timelines, and risk assessments to stakeholders.
• Support capacity readiness by validating server acceptance criteria and coordinating with data center technicians.
• Identify gaps in monitoring or tooling and propose improvements.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time.

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational health of server fleets and production systems that underpin Meta's family of apps and services.

You will monitor health with observability tooling, develop and refine runbooks and incident response playbooks, and partner with hardware, network and capacity teams on deployments and