Principal Infra Engineer — Technical Leader, Equity

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a highly experienced principal engineer to join the Central Integrity team in Menlo Park, CA. You will drive long-term technical vision across large-scale infrastructure projects, mentoring engineers and partnering with executives to shape the roadmap.

You’ll apply advanced AI capabilities and system design skills to detect and disrupt harm at a global scale, delivering real-world impact while advancing Meta’s integrity and safety efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 8+ years of 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.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps 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 and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies
• Partner and collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team and organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization and influence the appropriate people for staffing and 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

C++

Java

Python

System design

Mentoring

Cross-team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

PhD (preferred)

Job description

Meta is seeking a highly experienced principal engineer to join the Central Integrity team in Menlo Park, CA. You will drive long-term technical vision across large-scale infrastructure projects, mentoring engineers and partnering with executives to shape the roadmap.

You’ll apply advanced AI capabilities and system design skills to detect and disrupt harm at a global scale, delivering real-world impact while advancing Meta’s integrity and safety efforts.