Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Leadership

Meta; United States; On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks principal engineers to lead infrastructure initiatives that scale across products and platforms. You will guide long-term technical vision, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-team programs with a focus on reliability and performance.

This leadership role delivers high-impact features for billions of users on web and mobile, partnering with product, design and research to advance the state of the art in distributed systems and user experience.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of programming experience or 8+ years with a PhD in a relevant language.
• Experience mentoring/executing influence with executive stakeholders.
• Experience using data to explain problems and propose solutions.
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Drive team goals and technical direction to improve organizational efficiency.
• Communicate complex features and systems clearly.
• Assess industry trends to develop new technologies.
• Collaborate with leaders to improve team performance.
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmaps for large initiatives.
• Gather requirements and create effective feature roadmaps.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues and reduce technical debt.

Skills

Mentoring executives

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Performance profiling

Job description

Meta seeks principal engineers to lead infrastructure initiatives that scale across products and platforms. You will guide long-term technical vision, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-team programs with a focus on reliability and performance.

This leadership role delivers high-impact features for billions of users on web and mobile, partnering with product, design and research to advance the state of the art in distributed systems and user experience.