Senior Traffic Capacity & Performance Engineer

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta in Menlo Park seeks a senior software engineer to build and operate large-scale traffic simulations, optimization solvers, forecasting systems, and agentic planning tools to determine network capacity needs and manage demand, failures, and risk.

You will lead technical work across teams, validate plans against production behavior, and support systems in production, including on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience (or PhD with at least 4 years).
• Proficiency in Python and one of C++, Java, Go, or Rust.
• Experience operating production systems or large-scale data pipelines.
• Expertise in simulation, optimization, or forecasting.
• Experience leading cross-team technical work.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale traffic simulations, optimization solvers, forecasting systems, and agentic planning tools to determine network capacity needs and manage demand, failures, and risk.
• Lead technical work across teams, validate plans against production behavior, and support the systems in production, including on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Go

Rust

Large-Scale Simulation

Mathematical Optimization

Capacity Planning

Forecasting

Distributed Computing

Network Traffic Engineering

Failure Modeling

Reliability Engineering

Production Systems

Technical Leadership

LLM-Based Agents

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Meta in Menlo Park seeks a senior software engineer to build and operate large-scale traffic simulations, optimization solvers, forecasting systems, and agentic planning tools to determine network capacity needs and manage demand, failures, and risk.

You will lead technical work across teams, validate plans against production behavior, and support systems in production, including on-call responsibilities.