Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers to join product teams working on Facebook/Meta platforms. You will help build scalable features, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional initiatives that impact billions of users globally.

The role emphasizes multi-year roadmaps, AI tool adoption, and responsible AI practices, with a focus on delivering high-quality products across web and mobile platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Experience mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
• 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap aligning short-term projects to long-term vision
• 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• 12+ years of programming experience
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows and drive measurable impact
• Experience implementing responsible, ethical AI practices and ongoing AI skill development

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Large-scale systems

Roadmap planning

Web/mobile development

Programming experience (12+ years)

AI tooling adoption

Ethical AI

Mentoring engineers

Cross-organizational collaboration

Engineering large projects

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Job description

We are the teams who create all of Facebook’s product used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world. Want to build new features and improve existing products like Commerce, Ads, Video, Groups, News Feed, Search, and more? Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems? Facebook is seeking experienced full‑stack software engineers to join our product teams. You can help build products that help us connect the next billion people, create new features that have billions of interactions per day, and be a part of a team that’s working to help people connect around the globe.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
• 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
• 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• 12+ years of programming experience
• Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• 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