Production Engineer Intern

AISES; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Meta is seeking Production Engineer Interns to help build and operate the backend services that power Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and other platforms. You’ll write code, debug live systems, and contribute to infrastructure that serves billions of users.

As an intern, you’ll own parts of fleet management and core services, collaborate with senior engineers, and gain hands-on experience with distributed systems, networking, and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program in computer science or related field.
• Experience coding in at least one language.
• 1+ years with new development languages (Python, Hack/PHP, C++, Java, Rust, GoLang).
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at time of hire and maintain during employment.
• Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship.

Responsibilities

• Own back-end services and infrastructure components relevant to production systems.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, debug live systems at scale.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and contribute to production code used by billions.

Skills

Unix-like OS

Programming languages

Work authorization

Academic status

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Job description

Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently. PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing highquality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide. Our PEs are embedded in teams across the spectrum, from products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Videos to critical backend services such as Storage, Cache, and Networking. The team brings together diverse levels of experience and backgrounds. Working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you’ll contribute to code and systems that go into production and are used by millions every day. In Production Engineering at Meta, we navigate uncharted waters daily — solving problems at a scale few others face.

Production Engineer Intern Responsibilities

• Own back-end services which handle fleet management, front-end services such as WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook / Meta Ads, infrastructure components that drive Meta’s advances in AI, core services which are used by every team at Meta, the world’s largest MySQL deployments, networking systems and everything in between
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
• Partner alongside the best engineers in the industry working on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of people all around the world

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience in a *nix (Linux, BSDs, Solaris, or another UNIX-like OS) or Windows OS
• Experience coding in at least one language
• 1 or more years with new development languages (Python, Hack/PHP, C++, Java, Rust, and GoLang)
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• Knowledge of internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN's)