Director Software Engineering - Central Integrity

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an engineering director to lead the Central Integrity team's AI-powered measurement platforms and safeguard billions of people on our apps. You will define strategy, grow a high-impact engineering organization, and partner with product, design, and data science to drive outcomes at scale.

This role drives the AI transformation of measurement capabilities, builds trusted partnerships with leadership, and leads efforts to recruit and retain top engineering talent.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering.
• 7+ years in engineering management including managing managers.
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations.
• Experience forming cross-functional partnerships with product, design, and data science.
• Ability to reason with data, metrics, and ecosystem trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive engineering strategy for Integrity Measurement Platform, focusing on AI and LLM-powered measurement.
• Lead engineering and research talent to build trusted measurement platforms and metrics.
• Partner with leaders across Central Integrity, apps, and Monetization to shape strategy and inform decisions.
• Build shared capabilities to help teams understand and manage risk.
• Prioritize customer outcomes and build trusted partnerships with leadership.
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent with a focus on reliability and operating excellence.
• Guide the organization through the AI transformation of measurement capabilities.
• Drive organizational health through feedback, manager effectiveness data, and issue diagnosis.
• Represent engineering in executive planning and strategic decision-making for integrity initiatives.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Engineering management

Cross-functional partnerships

Metrics & data science

AI/LLM experience

Job description

Meta is seeking an engineering director to join our Central Integrity team, which exists to keep billions of people safe on Meta's platforms. We design and deploy systems that detect and disrupt harm at an unprecedented global scale, making this a large-scale deployment of AI for positive real-world impact. Our work safeguards critical areas including child and youth safety, fraud and scams, identity and authenticity, and more while actively building defenses against novel frontier threats, such as autonomous AI agents and automated risk vectors. This represents some of the most technically demanding and high-stakes engineering and product at Meta, driven by a deeply mission-focused team. You'll combine strong engineering fundamentals with cutting-edge AI to build effective, adaptable solutions that stay ahead of evolving integrity and safety risks. If you are driven by hard technical challenges and want your work to deliver immediate, real-world impact, this is the right role for you.

Director Software Engineering - Central Integrity Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for Integrity Measurement Platform, with a focus on AI and LLM-powered measurement capabilities
• Lead engineering and research talent to build trusted, customer-first measurement platforms and metrics
• Partner with leaders across Central Integrity, Meta's apps, and Monetization to shape strategy and inform consequential product decisions. Drive technical vision for LLM-powered measurement and AI agents that explain metric changes and support investigations
• Build shared capabilities that help teams across Meta move faster in understanding and managing risk
• Prioritize customer outcomes by starting with customer outcomes and building trusted partnerships with leadership
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent with a high bar for reliable platforms, data pipelines, and operational excellence
• Guide a highly technical organization through the AI transformation of its measurement capabilities
• Drive organizational health by proactively diagnosing and addressing issues surfaced through team feedback and manager effectiveness data
• Represent an engineering perspective in executive-level planning and strategic decision-making for integrity measurement initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical industry experience in software engineering
• 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers
• A track record of building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting, developing, and managing the performance of engineers and engineering leaders
• Experience forming cross-functional partnerships across product, design, and data science to deliver large-scale engineering outcomes
• Experience reasoning rigorously with metrics and data, with an understanding of statistical uncertainty, bias, and ecosystem trade-offs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying AI and LLMs to measurement, analytics, or data platform challenges
• Experience in trust and safety, risk, fraud, security, or regulated domain engineering
• Experience leading engineering teams through significant platform or tooling transitions, including the adoption of AI-augmented development workflows
• Experience building or contributing to systems, policies, or processes that improve platform safety for people and businesses
• Track record of driving cross-organizational collaboration and building trusted partnerships with leadership
• Experience managing distributed or geographically dispersed engineering organizations

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.

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$271,000/year to $347,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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.