Lead Principal Software Engineer, Scalable Infra

Meta; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across platforms, including mobile devices and web applications.

Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect

Qualifications

• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Skills

Leadership

Infrastructure

Executive stakeholder mentoring

Roadmap & vision

Cross-functional collaboration

Staffing/prioritization

Communication of complex features

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

C/C++/Java

Python/JavaScript/Hack

Distributed systems

Job description

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across platforms, including mobile devices and web applications.

Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect