Software Engineer Leadership - Infrastructure
Meta
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About Meta
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, we encourage you to apply.
Software Engineer Leadership - Infrastructure 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
- 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
- Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
- Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
- 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
Key skills/competency
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- System Design
- Scalability
- Performance Optimization
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Roadmap Planning
- Mentorship
- Data Analysis
- Software Development Life Cycle
How to Get Hired at Meta
- Research Meta's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume strategically: Customize your resume to highlight infrastructure leadership experience, large-scale system design, and cross-functional collaboration, aligning with Meta's Software Engineer Leadership - Infrastructure role requirements.
- Showcase your impact: Prepare to articulate specific instances where you've driven technical direction, reduced technical debt, or improved system efficiency in previous roles during your Meta interview.
- Master system design and distributed systems: Brush up on advanced concepts in scalable infrastructure, fault tolerance, and performance optimization, which are critical for Meta's technical assessments.
- Network effectively: Connect with current Meta engineers or recruiters on LinkedIn to gain insights and potentially secure a referral for the Software Engineer Leadership - Infrastructure position.
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