Global Infrastructure Architect & Projects Lead

Talantir; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks an experienced Global Infrastructure Engineer to lead multi-disciplinary initiatives across data centers, infrastructure, and hardware teams. The role demands strong leadership, architecture vision, and global collaboration to shape scalable, resilient platforms and services.

The candidate will steer programs across time zones, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement in data center design, electrical, cooling, and storage strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of the full stack of infrastructure, with experience building or operating logical infrastructure on top of a complex, distributed physical infrastructure.
• Proven communication skills and experience working in a highly distributed environment, across teams/department boundaries.
• 10+ years of technical experience, in a large-scale data center or IT Infrastructure environment, or equivalent experience building platforms and systems for large scale compute.
• Experience building globally scalable solutions and translating global strategic initiatives into local executable projects.
• Knowledge of the interdependencies of data center functions and technologies including electrical, cooling, structured cabling, security, network, server and storage systems.
• Experience building, operating, and scaling with Linux or Unix Operating systems
• Experience communicating the results of analysis and insights to cross functional teams and influencing the strategy of these teams
• Experience with Data Center Design and Expansion

Responsibilities

• Represent Site Operations in leading work to define and architect new solutions on global initiatives, working with stakeholders across Infra Data Centers & Infrastructure teams.
• Assemble and lead teams to address complex engineering challenges, requiring technical expertise as well as a broad understanding of Meta’s overall infrastructure.
• Address issues that can be ambiguous and global in nature, requiring leadership and collaboration across time zones, teams, and technical domains.
• Act as key SME and mentor in the design, operation, and troubleshooting of tools, technologies, and processes utilized within Site Operations.
• Understand and assess risks and challenges associated with emerging new hardware, data center and software technologies, and define & implement effective mitigations for these.
• Employ a holistic understanding of the full infrastructure stack to lead solutions that appropriately balance physical and logical layer
• Act as a global communication and advisory point of contact for the design, implementation and delivery of projects that affect our global data center and server fleet and facilitate resolution of issues drawing on local expertise and global support partners
• Leverage data-driven methodologies to understand a problem at the onset, define a plan, and measure progress throughout a project
• Provide data supplied narratives and ensure a focus on continuous improvement
• Build and support, trusted, cross-functional connections with teams across the globe and serve as an advocate for the Site Operations Team with key stakeholders, influencing policies and procedures to improve global data center operations

Skills

Global infrastructure knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Linux/Unix expertise

Data center design

Storage/AI-ML services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Virtualization

Containerization

Distributed systems

Job description

Meta seeks an experienced Global Infrastructure Engineer to lead multi-disciplinary initiatives across data centers, infrastructure, and hardware teams. The role demands strong leadership, architecture vision, and global collaboration to shape scalable, resilient platforms and services.

The candidate will steer programs across time zones, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement in data center design, electrical, cooling, and storage strategies.