Software Engineer, Technical Leadership
Meta
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Job Description
Overview
Meta is seeking a Software Engineer, Technical Leadership to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems like payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. This position involves applying these skills to some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
- Effectively communicate complex features & 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.
- Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
- Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models.
- Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
- Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations.
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision.
- Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.
- 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, or Java) with a technical background.
- 8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining or deep learning based methods.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or having started a new line of product.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Key skills/competency
- Machine Learning
- Technical Leadership
- Scalability
- Distributed Systems
- Data Mining
- Recommendation Systems
- Classification
- Optimization
- Python
- C++
How to Get Hired at Meta
- Research Meta's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to align with Meta's innovative spirit.
- Tailor your resume for impact: Highlight technical leadership, large-scale ML project experience, and programming proficiency (Python, C++, Java) to stand out for Meta's Software Engineer, Technical Leadership role.
- Showcase technical depth: Prepare to discuss your experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, and data mining, demonstrating expertise in solving complex problems.
- Demonstrate leadership and influence: Be ready with specific examples of driving technical direction, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-functional initiatives with industry-wide impact at Meta.
- Practice behavioral and technical interviews: Prepare for questions on system design, algorithm challenges, and how you approach complex classification and optimization problems.
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