Hyperscale Data Center Capacity Engineer

Meta; Bowling Green (OH); On-site; USD 111,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Engineer to help ensure our hyperscale data center infrastructure meets the demands of billions of users across Meta's apps and services. You will analyze capacity trends, model future demand, and partner with hardware, network, and site operations teams to plan capacity at scale.

You will own end-to-end capacity requirements, drive complex infrastructure projects, and mentor team members while collaborating with cross-functional partners to improve

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a combination of capacity planning, demand and supply management, production planning, operations planning, or infrastructure management
• B.S., B.A., or B.Eng. in a relevant field, or equivalent degree or certification
• Experience with process ownership and development, and systems development
• Knowledge of enterprise-level networking, servers, and storage installations
• Demonstrated understanding of data center infrastructure systems and applications
• Familiarity with data center power and cooling constraints, and their impact on server density and capacity planning decisions
• Ability to communicate effectively, in a clear and concise manner, appropriately tailoring messages to multiple audiences
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and to deliver at scale

Responsibilities

• Own accountability for the three capacity workflows (receiving, moves, decommissioning), facilitating collaboration among various cross‑functional partners to meet capacity demands
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners to develop a strategy and drive initiatives that lead to meaningful improvements in support of data center operations. Maintain consistent touchpoints with key XFN partners across data centers
• Analyze business capacity demands and translate that data into local plans to enable rapid delivery of capacity to the data center
• Plan, lead and collaborate with cross‑functional data center teams to deliver complex data center infrastructure capacity projects in support of Meta’s growth, considering the interdependencies of production resiliency, power, cooling, network, server and application layers
• Build cross‑functional relationships and have the ability to influence policies and procedures to improve regional/global data center operations
• Develop and share best practices across all global data centers for all elements of capacity while creating a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and safety
• Drive alignment and execution of key capacity strategic, engineering, and operational initiatives across functional partners at the data center. Ensure operational consistency, to scale operations efficiently and effectively
• Lead data analytics, metrics, and the interpretation of a complex environment to identify inefficiencies, opportunities, exceptions, and correlations, and proactively respond before they impact data center uptime and utilization. Perform root cause analysis of complex technical and engineering issues and drive resolution
• Create/improve global standards for processes, workflows, and automation roadmaps for software automation that facilitate deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning of server hardware at scale
• Work with Meta hardware and software engineering teams to help resolve complex technical issues that affect Meta's computing infrastructure
• Mentor capacity team members both locally and globally. Seek out and provide guidance on challenges others are having and actively fix them in a scalable way
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more of these areas

Skills

Capacity planning

Demand and supply management

Operations planning

Infrastructure management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Bash

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Engineer to help ensure our hyperscale data center infrastructure meets the demands of billions of users across Meta's apps and services. You will analyze capacity trends, model future demand, and partner with hardware, network, and site operations teams to plan capacity at scale.

You will own end-to-end capacity requirements, drive complex infrastructure projects, and mentor team members while collaborating with cross-functional partners to improve