Lead AI Agentic Reliability Engineer

Meta; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build the next generation of AI systems for production reliability. You will prototype, build, and ship an autonomous AI agent that investigates production incidents, identifies root causes, creates safe mitigation plans, and executes them under human supervision.

This senior IC role blends deep infrastructure expertise with applied AI, requiring hands-on coding, architecture refinement, and guardrails for authorization, auditability, and safe

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems.
• Experience leading multi-year engineering efforts across organizational boundaries.
• Experience applying AI to production problems.
• Experience moving from concept to production with measurable impact.
• Experience diagnosing complex production systems using telemetry, code, configuration, and dependency information.
• Proficient in C++, Java, Python, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience shipping complex production systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and architecture for agentic reliability systems across Meta.
• Personally design, code, and ship production agentic systems for complex infrastructure problems.
• Lead the development of an AI agent for production incident investigation and mitigation, advancing it toward accurate, trusted, and safely supervised autonomous action.
• Develop major improvements in agent reasoning, context, tool use, planning, evaluation, learning, and safe execution.
• Establish architectures and guardrails for production actions, including authorization, independent validation, auditability, rollback, and human oversight.
• Partner with Infrastructure, AI, Product, and Reliability leaders to integrate agentic capabilities into Meta’s production ecosystem.

Skills

AI systems

Distributed systems

Incident response

Production deployment

C++, Java, Python, Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Meta is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build the next generation of AI systems for production reliability. You will prototype, build, and ship an autonomous AI agent that investigates production incidents, identifies root causes, creates safe mitigation plans, and executes them under human supervision.

This senior IC role blends deep infrastructure expertise with applied AI, requiring hands-on coding, architecture refinement, and guardrails for authorization, auditability, and safe