Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership)

Meta; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership) to guide multi-team efforts in building cutting-edge AI-powered products across mobile and web platforms.

The role emphasizes leading a world-class engineering and research team, setting long-term technical vision, and collaborating with executives to shape product strategy and performance. The candidate should have strong leadership and broad experience in scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building large-scale applications or 12+ years with PhD.
• Experience mentoring executive stakeholders and driving cross-functional solutions.
• Ability to plan multi-year roadmaps aligning short-term work with long-term mission.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that improve efficiency across your larger organization
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to assess and develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to improve team and organizational performance
• Identify opportunities for the larger organization and influence staffing/prioritization of ideas
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues and reduce tech debt

Skills

Mentoring executives

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication of complex features

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

PhD preferred

Tools

C/C++/Java/Swift/Kotlin

Python/JavaScript/Hack

Job description

Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership)

Sunnyvale, CA +9 locations

Artificial Intelligence + 6 more

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,

Responsibilities

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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