Senior Network Automation Engineer (Datacenter & AI)

Meta; Cheyenne (WY); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Network Production Engineer to design, build, and operate a massive global network across Backbone, Datacenter, and AI domains. You will help automate deployment, validation, and monitoring, contributing to scalable, reliable systems powering Meta's products at enormous scale.

You will work in a hybrid software/network role, collaborating with hardware, software, and sourcing teams to drive network innovation and efficiency across the backbone, data center, and edge networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience planning, designing, building, and/or operating scalable and reliable systems and/or networks.
• Experience coding in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Rust, or Java) and rapidly learning new development languages, software, frameworks, and APIs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), and related network services (e.g., DHCP and DNS).
• Experience developing and understanding network device configuration in multi-vendor environments (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.).
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, and messaging systems
• Hardware evaluation and vendor management experience.

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement global best practices and design new scalable network solutions
• Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools to support new product introductions, network deployment, release engineering, and operations
• Design and develop solutions that scale across a variety of hardware platforms of network equipment
• Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validations, testing infrastructure, release, and configuration management across our global backbone, data center, and edge networks
• Work closely with our hardware, software, and sourcing teams to develop new networking solutions and influence the future of networking and its associated infrastructure
• Conduct thorough investigations into complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
• Develop operational process improvements and implement them in scalable, automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency
• Help increase operational efficiency between peers and cross-functional teams by identifying roadblocks, designing and delivering automation solutions, and driving change
• Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, drive the project, and influence other teams to reach there
• Participate in an on-call rotation to learn from real-world production challenges and take the lessons to improve current and future generation products
• Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship

Skills

Programming languages

TCP/IP networking

Multi-vendor networking

Automation tooling

NMS/configuration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Automation tooling

Network monitoring systems

Job description

Meta is seeking a Network Production Engineer to design, build, and operate a massive global network across Backbone, Datacenter, and AI domains. You will help automate deployment, validation, and monitoring, contributing to scalable, reliable systems powering Meta's products at enormous scale.

You will work in a hybrid software/network role, collaborating with hardware, software, and sourcing teams to drive network innovation and efficiency across the backbone, data center, and edge networks.