Global Network Production Engineer – Automation & AI Ops

Meta; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Santa Fe, NM is seeking Network Production Engineers to design, build, and operate a massive backbone and data center network. You will help scale and automate networks across backbone, data center, and edge while supporting AI workloads.

You will work hybrid software and network engineering, owning the lifecycle from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and efficiency across platforms and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience with planning, designing, building and/or operating scalable systems/networks.
• 4+ years of coding experience in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go, C++, or Java), and with willingness to learn new development languages as needed.
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), and related network services (e.g. DHCP and DNS).
• Experience developing and understanding network device configuration in multi-vendor environments.
• Hardware evaluation and vendor management
• Experience developing software using AI models

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement global best practices and design new, scalable network solutions
• Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools to support new product introductions, network deployment, release engineering, and operations
• Design and develop solutions that scale across a variety of hardware platforms of network equipment
• Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validations, testing infrastructure, release, and configuration management across our global backbone, data center, and edge networks
• Work closely with our hardware, software, and sourcing teams to develop new networking solutions and influence the future of networking and its associated infrastructure
• Conduct thorough investigations into complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
• Develop operational process improvements and implement them in scalable, automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency
• Help increase operational efficiency between peers and cross-functional teams by identifying roadblocks, designing and delivering automation solutions, and driving change
• Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, drive the project, and influence other teams to reach their goals
• Participate in an on-call rotation to learn from real-world production challenges and take the lessons to improve current and future generations of products
• Contribute to the team's growth and development through peer mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Python

Go

C++

Java

Job description

Meta in Santa Fe, NM is seeking Network Production Engineers to design, build, and operate a massive backbone and data center network. You will help scale and automate networks across backbone, data center, and edge while supporting AI workloads.

You will work hybrid software and network engineering, owning the lifecycle from design to deployment, ensuring reliability and efficiency across platforms and teams.