Manager, Hardware Capacity Planning, Network and Data Center Equipment

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks an experienced capacity engineering leader to oversee hardware capacity planning for network and data center equipment across the company’s global infrastructure.

You will lead a team responsible for forecasting, supply planning, and supply management of switches, routers, optical transport systems, and data center hardware for billions of users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality Labs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in capacity planning, network infrastructure planning, or data center hardware engineering.
• 5+ years leading engineering or technical planning teams, including hiring and performance management.
• Experience with demand forecasting and capacity modeling for large-scale network or data center hardware portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Lead capacity planning for global network and data center hardware.
• Forecast demand and manage supply Planning and lifecycle decisions.
• Partner with network, data center operations, supply chain, and finance to align investments.
• Communicate capacity strategies and risk assessments to senior leadership.
• Develop and scale capacity planning tooling, automation, or data pipelines.

Skills

Capacity planning

Forecasting

DC hardware

Network infrastructure planning

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Capital budgeting

TCO modeling

AI tooling

Vendor ecosystems

Job description

Meta is seeking an experienced capacity engineering leader to oversee hardware capacity planning for network and data center equipment across Meta's global infrastructure. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for forecasting, supply planning, and supply management of network switches, routers, optical transport systems, and data center hardware at hyperscale. You will partner with network engineering, data center operations, supply chain, and finance to ensure Meta's infrastructure can support the compute and connectivity demands of billions of users across products including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality Labs.

• 10+ years of experience in capacity planning, network infrastructure planning, or data center hardware engineering
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering or technical planning teams, including hiring, performance management, and organizational development
• Experience with demand forecasting and capacity modeling for large-scale network or data center hardware portfolios including switches, routers, or optical transport equipment
• Experience partnering with supply chain, finance, and infrastructure engineering teams to drive hardware procurement and lifecycle planning decisions
• Experience communicating infrastructure investment strategies and capacity risk assessments to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience building or scaling capacity planning tooling, automation, or data pipelines to support large hardware portfolios
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Familiarity with network hardware vendor ecosystems including merchant silicon platforms, optical networking, and spine-leaf data center architectures
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Background in capital expenditure planning, hardware total cost of ownership modeling, or infrastructure financial analysis
• Experience leading capacity planning at hyperscale infrastructure organizations with global data center and network footprints
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies