Senior IP Backbone Design Engineer

Socket.dev; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Production Network Engineer to lead IP design across backbone domains. Hybrid software and network engineer role emphasizes design and de-risking at scale, with multi-year topology plans and migration strategies. Coding is required to support design lifecycles and automation.

You will partner with Capacity Planning and Network Fiber sourcing, drive consensus, and deliver handoffs to delivery teams, with travel ~10-15% and global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/CE or related field.
• 6+ years designing/operating large-scale IP networks.
• Deep TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, and BGP with MPLS/IS-IS experience.

Responsibilities

• Own long-term IP backbone design 2-3 years ahead across domains/regions.
• Define migrations and product introductions with migration strategy.
• Design and run large-scale migrations in live environments with minimal outages.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

MPLS/IS-IS

Python

C++

Go

Code/Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Juniper

Cisco

Arista

Job description

Meta is seeking a Production Network Engineer to lead IP design across backbone domains. Hybrid software and network engineer role emphasizes design and de-risking at scale, with multi-year topology plans and migration strategies. Coding is required to support design lifecycles and automation.

You will partner with Capacity Planning and Network Fiber sourcing, drive consensus, and deliver handoffs to delivery teams, with travel ~10-15% and global collaboration.