Senior AI Reliability Engineer for Production Systems

Meta; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Meta seeks a senior software engineer to build an AI-driven reliability agent for production incidents. You’ll work across distributed systems, incident response, and applied AI to prototype, test, and ship scalable agentic solutions.

The role combines hands-on coding with architecture work, aligning safety, autonomy, and human oversight while delivering measurable improvements at Meta scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems.
• Experience leading multi-year engineering efforts across organizational boundaries.
• Experience applying AI or machine learning systems to production problems.
• Proven track record moving concepts to production deployments with measurable impact.
• Experience diagnosing complex production systems using telemetry, code, configuration, and dependencies.
• Proficiency in C++, Java, Python, Rust, or equivalent.
• Recent hands-on experience building and shipping complex production systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and architecture for agentic reliability systems at Meta.
• Design, code, and ship production agentic systems for infrastructure problems.
• Lead development of an AI agent for production incident investigation and mitigation.
• Improve agent reasoning, context use, planning, evaluation, and safe execution.
• Apply techniques like fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, distillation, and inference optimization.
• Identify high-value AI applications across incident prevention, detection, and observability.
• Prototype, test against production workloads, and scale successful approaches.
• Develop evaluation and experimentation systems linking agent quality to outcomes.
• Create closed-loop improvement systems from production results to agent behavior.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI in production

Leadership

Telemetry analysis

C++

Python

Production deployment

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Meta seeks a senior software engineer to build an AI-driven reliability agent for production incidents. You’ll work across distributed systems, incident response, and applied AI to prototype, test, and ship scalable agentic solutions.

The role combines hands-on coding with architecture work, aligning safety, autonomy, and human oversight while delivering measurable improvements at Meta scale.