Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership)

Meta; City of Albany (NY); Sur place; USD 219 000 - 301 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Meta is seeking principal engineers to join teams building cutting-edge products connecting billions of people worldwide. You will oversee complex technical problems, drive feature development across mobile and web platforms, and lead a world-class team of engineers and researchers.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and collaboration at scale. You will guide long-term technical vision, prioritize initiatives, and mentor executives while delivering high-impact results with measurable

Qualifications

• 12+ years of programming experience or 8+ years with a PhD
• Experience mentoring executive stakeholders across organizations
• Ability to plan multi-year roadmap aligning short-term projects with long-term mission
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Responsabilités

• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems to stakeholders
• Drive performance, scalability, and reduction of technical debt
• Identify new opportunities for staffing priorities and project direction

Connaissances

Executive stakeholder mentoring

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Roadmap planning

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

PhD (preferred)

Outils

C/C++/Java/Swift/Kotlin

Python/JavaScript

Description du poste

Summary:

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect globally. If you're interested in leading a world-class team of engineers and researchers to work on exciting projects that have significant impact.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
6. Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
2. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
3. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
4. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
5. 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
6. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
7. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Swift, or Kotlin, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
2. 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale applications or similar experience
3. Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
4. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
5. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
6. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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