Production Engineer: Scale Global Infra & AI

Meta; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in the United States is seeking Production Engineers to own back-end services across fleet management, AI infrastructure, and core systems used by vast user bases. You will write and review code, produce capacity plans, and handle live incidents with on-call rotations.

You will collaborate with top engineers to push production tech for billions of users globally. The role emphasizes ownership, performance optimization, and mentoring teammates to amplify impact across teams and platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in *nix (Linux or UNIX-like OS) and Network fundamentals
• 7+ years of coding experience in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, Python, C++, PHP/Hack, Rust, Go)
• Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
• Experience with Internet service architecture capacity planning and/or handling needs for urgent capacity augmentation
• Knowledge of common web technologies and/or Internet service architectures (such as LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDN, Load Balancing techniques, etc.)
• Experience configuring and running infrastructure level applications, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, etc
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

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, leverage best-in-industry AI tools to land and productionize code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
• 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
• Analyze and optimize code for quality, scalability, efficiency, and performance
• Establish ownership of systems with expert end-to-end understanding
• Lead your engineering team by example, mentor and help others around you grow, be a force multiplier of impact

Skills

Unix/Linux

Java

Python

C++

PHP/Hack

Rust

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL

Job description

Meta in the United States is seeking Production Engineers to own back-end services across fleet management, AI infrastructure, and core systems used by vast user bases. You will write and review code, produce capacity plans, and handle live incidents with on-call rotations.

You will collaborate with top engineers to push production tech for billions of users globally. The role emphasizes ownership, performance optimization, and mentoring teammates to amplify impact across teams and platforms.