Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Platform & AI Tooling

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Standalone Apps Team is building new apps to reach new user scenarios and serve needs that aren't well met today. The project is an image-and-text community where people share experiences and recommendations, inspiring decisions and helping with everyday choices.

We are seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own the platform the product runs on—data pipelines, storage, service frameworks, and developer tooling—so a small team can move fast without breaking things.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time on infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
• Deep grasp of distributed systems, storage, reliability, and performance.
• Track record of building and operating infrastructure at scale.
• Experience leading technical direction and working independently with limited guidance.
• 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.
• Experience standing up infrastructure for a new product (0-1).
• Experience with large-scale data systems, ML infrastructure, or developer-productivity tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own data pipelines, storage, service frameworks and developer tooling.
• Build foundations enabling a small team to move fast without breaking things.
• Shape product infrastructure from its first version with high ownership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Storage

Reliability

Performance

Infra at scale

Leadership

AI tools integration

Ethical AI

Prompt engineering

0-1 product infra

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Meta's Standalone Apps Team is building new apps to reach new user scenarios and serve needs that aren't well met today. The project is an image-and-text community where people share experiences and recommendations, inspiring decisions and helping with everyday choices.

We are seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own the platform the product runs on—data pipelines, storage, service frameworks, and developer tooling—so a small team can move fast without breaking things.