Data Engineer, Analytics (Technical Leadership)

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 210,000 - 281,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a data engineering leader to drive the vision for data foundation and analytics. You will work with product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to design scalable data architectures and analytics platforms that support Meta’s products and user experiences.

You will lead end-to-end analytics initiatives, govern data practices, and mentor others while delivering impactful data solutions across multiple domains and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 10+ years experience in data warehouse environments.
• 10+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining ETL processes.
• 10+ years of object-oriented programming experience.
• 10+ years designing schema and dimensional models.
• 10+ years writing SQL statements.
• Experience analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps, and inconsistencies.
• Experience communicating data warehouse plans to internal clients.

Responsibilities

• Proactively drive vision for data foundation and analytics across platforms.
• Own data architecture for large-scale projects and evaluate design tradeoffs.
• Create frameworks to improve data logging and issue triage by data infra teams.
• Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, PMs and Engineers.
• Define and manage SLAs for datasets in ownership areas.
• Implement security models respecting privacy requirements and governance.
• Design and launch data models and visualizations for various products.
• Solve complex data integration problems using ETL patterns and SQL.
• Optimize production pipelines, dashboards, and data artifacts.
• Influence product teams to identify data opportunities and impact.
• Mentor team members with actionable feedback.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

SQL proficiency

ETL design

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

Big data technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

MapReduce

MPP system

SQL

Job description

Summary:

Every month, billions of people leverage Meta products to connect with friends and loved ones from across the world. On the Data Engineering Team, our mission is to support these products both internally and externally by delivering the best data foundation that drives impact through informed decision making. As a highly collaborative organization, our data engineers work cross-functionally with software engineering, data science, and product management to optimize growth, strategy, and experience for our 3 billion plus users, as well as our internal employee community. We are looking for a technical leader in our Data Engineering team to work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to support building out a great platform for the future of computing. In this role, you will view a direct correlation between your work, company growth, and user satisfaction. You’ll work with some of the best minds in the industry, work with one of the richest data sets in the world, use cutting edge technology, and see your efforts affect products and people on a regular basis. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in data infrastructure and data architecture as well as areas such as governing company wide data marts, enabling security and privacy data solutions, and full stack experience with analytical technologies. Candidates should also have a proven track record of leading and scaling efforts related to end-to-end analytics systems, operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, project management leadership, and a vision for how data can proactively improve companies. As we continue to expand and create, we have a lot of exciting work ahead of us!

Required Skills:

Data Engineer, Analytics (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

1. Proactively drive the vision for data foundation and analytics to accelerate building and improvement of cross platform components across Instagram, and define and execute on plan to achieve that vision
2. Conceptualize and own the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects, while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems
3. Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve
4. Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers and Software Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs
5. Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership
6. Determine and implement the security model based on privacy requirements, confirm safeguards are followed, address data quality issues, and evolve governance processes within allocated areas of ownership
7. Design, build, and launch collections of sophisticated data models and visualizations that support use cases across different products or domains
8. Solve our most challenging data integrations problems, utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources
9. Assist in owning existing processes running in production, optimizing complex code through advanced algorithmic concepts
10. Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts
11. Influence product and cross-functional teams to identify data opportunities to drive impact
12. Mentor team members by giving/receiving actionable feedback

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
2. 10+ years experience in the data warehouse space
3. 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
4. 10+ years experience with object-oriented programming languages
5. 10+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
6. 10+ years experience in authoring SQL statements
7. Experience analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies
8. Experience managing and communicating data warehouse plans to internal clients

Preferred Qualifications:

1. BS/BA in Technical Field, Computer Science or Mathematics
2. Experience working with either a MapReduce or an MPP system
3. Knowledge and practical application of Python
4. Experience working autonomously in global teams
5. Experience influencing product decisions with data
6. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
7. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
8. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$210,000/year to $281,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiditive Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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