Network Infrastructure Software Engineer — Scale & Automation

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Network Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates software systems powering one of the world's largest networks. You will design and develop software that automates and optimizes Meta's global network infrastructure, spanning data centers, backbone networks, and edge services.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and network engineering to build tools ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability for billions of users.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering focused on network infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience programming in C, C++, or Go in production.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems or network management platforms.
• Experience with network protocols (BGP, OSPF, ECMP) and observability systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software systems for network infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational tooling across Meta's global network.
• Build and maintain distributed services that manage network device state, topology, and telemetry at scale.
• Develop and improve network monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms to reduce mean time to detection and mitigation during network incidents.
• Collaborate with network engineers and cross-functional partners to define requirements and translate them into reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Drive architecture decisions for network automation systems, evaluating trade-offs across reliability, performance, and operational complexity.
• Design and implement A/B testing and staged rollout frameworks for network configuration changes to reduce risk during deployments.
• Establish and maintain service level objectives for network infrastructure services, building dashboards and runbooks to support incident response.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in network control plane and data pipeline systems through instrumentation and profiling.
• Mentor other engineers on the team by sharing domain expertise, reviewing designs, and contributing to engineering standards and best practices.
• Lead retrospectives on network incidents and drive implementation of follow-up improvements to prevent recurrence.

Skills

C/C++/Go

Distributed systems

Network automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

OpenConfig/gNMI

BGP/OSPF/ECMP

Job description

Meta's Network Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates software systems powering one of the world's largest networks. You will design and develop software that automates and optimizes Meta's global network infrastructure, spanning data centers, backbone networks, and edge services.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and network engineering to build tools ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability for billions of users.