Production Engineer, Network

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Production Engineer for the Network group to design, develop, and implement automation and tooling enabling scalable, reliable network operations for Meta’s vast data-center fleet. The role focuses on automating deployment, release engineering, and operations across global networks powering AI workloads.

The engineer will work at the intersection of low-level systems and distributed networks, contributing to production readiness and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing software to automate operations.
• 5+ years of experience configuring network devices from at least one vendor (e.g. Arista, Cisco).
• 5+ years coding experience in Python, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools for network products and operations.
• Develop scalable automated workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Design solutions that scale across multiple network platforms.
• Lead enhancements of automation for CI, testing, release, and configuration management.
• Investigate complex network issues, from tooling to hardware faults.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotations and serve as escalation contact.
• Identify operational gaps and drive execution with the team.
• Mentor peers and contribute to team growth.

Skills

Software automation

Network device configurations

Programming (Python/Go/C++)

TCP/IP networking

On-call / incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Master's degree in CS/Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Meta is seeking a Production Engineer with in-depth understanding of networking, systems, automation, and tooling to join the PE Network team. This team is responsible for deploying and managing one of the world’s largest and most complex networks. Meta’s network is a foundational component in achieving the company's AI goals and this role would play a key role in supporting it. Given the scale and demands of our infrastructure, automation plays a critical role. In this position, you will design, develop, and implement automation and tooling to streamline network operations while ensuring the scalability and reliability of Meta’s global network. You'll collaborate with top engineers in the industry to build and maintain the systems that power one of the largest networks in the world, supporting billions of users across our applications.

Make the global Datacenter network fleet reliable and available for all Infrastructure services to use. Contribute to the company's mission by operating and bringing to production all the new network products that enable networking for AI training and Inference.

A Network Production Engineer in this role would support leading Meta’s server fleet connections to the network, specifically from the Network Interface Card layer, top of rack and beyond. They would operate at a unique intersection of low level systems engineering and handle the challenge of operating a massively distributed fleet that is uniquely available at Meta. Network Production Engineers are exposed to bleeding edge technology being developed internally at Meta to optimize our server network communication stack.

Production Engineer, Network Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools to support the next generation of network products, network deployment, release engineering and operations.
• Develop operational process improvements and implement them in scalable, automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
• Design and develop solutions that scale across a variety of network platforms.
• Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validations, testing infrastructure, release, and configuration management across our global data center network fleet.
• Conduct thorough investigations into complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation with the team and be an escalation contact for your service
• Proactively find operational gaps that impact the efficiency of your team, come up with the execution plan, and drive the project directly and through influence of other team members.
• Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing software to automate operations.
• 5+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one network vendor (e.g. Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, etc.).
• 5+ years of coding experience in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go,C+,).
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), or related network services (e.g. DHCP and DNS).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or graduate work experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field..
• 6+ years of experience building software solutions for managing network infrastructure, with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• In-depth knowledge of software and network debugging, profiling, and instrumentation techniques to ensure optimal system performance.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and operating distributed systems at scale, with an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities in this space.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructure to ensure the quality and reliability of our systems.
• Knowledge of IB/RDMA/RoCE Networks, including RDMA congestion control mechanisms, AI training workloads and demands they exert on networks
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today- beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.