Senior Production Engineer - Scalable Backend Systems

Meta; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking Production Engineers to build and operate the infrastructure powering Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and more. You’ll ship high-quality code, scale systems, and own live production challenges.

You’ll work across teams to ensure reliability and performance for billions of users, mentor engineers, and contribute to AI-enabled tooling to productionize solutions. This role emphasizes on-call reliability and end-to-end system ownership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in *nix (Linux or UNIX-like OS) and Network fundamentals.
• 7+ years of coding experience in 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 (LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDN, Load Balancing techniques).
• 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++

Go

Networking

Capacity planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

MySQL

Job description

Meta is seeking Production Engineers to build and operate the infrastructure powering Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and more. You’ll ship high-quality code, scale systems, and own live production challenges.

You’ll work across teams to ensure reliability and performance for billions of users, mentor engineers, and contribute to AI-enabled tooling to productionize solutions. This role emphasizes on-call reliability and end-to-end system ownership.