Network Production Engineer

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Production Engineer for its Infrastructure Network Engineering team. You will design, deploy, and manage multi-vendor networks across data centers, drive end-to-end product lifecycles, and write automation to scale deployment and operations.

You will work with Juniper, Cisco, Arista, and Ciena gear, implement monitoring, and contribute to platform introductions across the fleet. The role emphasizes software and network integration, data-driven design decisions, and on-call

Qualifications

• Six years of experience in network engineering focusing on design/architecture.
• Four+ years coding in higher-level languages (Python/Go/C++) applied to automation.
• Experience configuring network devices across multiple vendors (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Ciena).
• Experience with BGP, OSPF, or ISIS and network performance optimizations.
• Experience with AI models or AI tooling in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol infrastructure networks across Meta datacenters and locations.
• Own the full product lifecycle from requirements through design, lab validation, and production handoff.
• Write and review code; develop automation for deployment, configuration management, and release engineering.
• Drive New Platform Introduction from concept to production handoff with cross-team collaboration.
• Develop audits, health checks, and monitoring for network health and safe change management.
• Maintain relationships with vendors and influence roadmaps; lead hardware evaluations.
• Define SLAs and implement metrics collection and reporting for owned network products.
• Collaborate across teams to identify and resolve cross-functional gaps; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Network automation with Python/Go/C++

Multi-vendor network design

AI in engineering workflows

IPv6 / TCP/IP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

SNMP/NETCONF/gNMI

RADIUS/TACACS

Job description

Summary:

The Infrastructure Network Engineering (INE) team within Core Networking designs and owns the datacenter management networks that underpin Meta's entire production IP network. Our products include out-of-band (OOB) management networks, disaster recovery infrastructure, passive optical networks (PON), and facilities networking (FacNet) — present in every datahall, every network rack, and every compute rack across Meta's global fleet.INE is a design team with full product lifecycle ownership. You will drive network products from requirements and RFC through design specification, proof-of-concept lab validation, and production operational accountability. Our portfolio spans more device roles and vendors than almost any other networking team at Meta — backbone, server, VPN, TOR, aggregation, MACsec, and more. If you want to solve scaling problems across a broad technology landscape rather than specializing in a single protocol domain, this is the role.As a Production Engineer in the network organization at Meta, you will combine the skills of a software and network engineer. You will use data analysis to influence design decisions and leverage automation to achieve the scale and velocity that Meta's AI-era data center growth demands.

Network Production Engineer Responsibilities:

1. Design, deploy, and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol infrastructure networks (OOB, PON, FacNet, DR) across every Meta datacenter and POP location
2. Own the full product lifecycle — from requirements gathering and RFC through design specification, POC lab validation, configuration artifacts, and production operational accountability
3. Write and review code, develop automation for the network deployment, configuration management, and release engineering workflow processes
4. Drive New Platform Introduction (NPI) from concept through lab validation to production handoff, collaborating with production engineering teams for productionization and delivery teams for delivery at scale
5. Develop audits, health checks, and monitoring to ensure network health and safe change management across the fleet
6. Maintain technical relationships with networking vendors (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Ciena), drive roadmap alignment, and lead hardware evaluations
7. Define SLAs, implement metric collection and reporting for the network products you own
8. Proactively identify cross-team gaps across the product portfolio and drive resolution through cross-functional collaboration
9. Together with the rest of your team, share an oncall rotation and serve as an escalation contact for service incidents

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
2. 6 years of work experience in network engineering, with emphasis on network design or architecture (not purely operations)
3. 4+ years of work experience in coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, Go, C++), applied to network automation or infrastructure tooling
4. Experience in developing and understanding network device configuration for multiple vendors (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Ciena, or an equivalent)
5. Protocol experience in one or more of BGP, OSPF, or ISIS — understanding of typical configurations and performance optimizations
6. Experience developing software using AI models or integrating AI tools into engineering workflows
7. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with hardware evaluation, vendor management, and influencing network product roadmaps through cross-functional collaboration
2. Experience in configuration and maintenance of network management systems or applications such as authentication servers (RADIUS/TACACS), logging infrastructure, or collection systems (SNMP/NETCONF/gNMI)
3. Experience with IPSec for site-to-site or remote access VPNs
4. Experience with XGS-PON or passive optical network technologies. Experience with out-of-band management networks, disaster recovery network infrastructure, or facility networking
5. 2+ years of experience in network design or architecture, with product ownership from concept through production
6. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
7. Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6
8. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
9. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Public Compensation:

$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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