Production Engineer

Production Engineer
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Menlo Park, CA
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Production Engineer Responsibilities
  • Own back-end services which handle fleet management, front-end services such as WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook / Meta Ads, infrastructure components that drive Meta’s advances in AI, core services which are used by every team at Meta, the world’s largest MySQL deployments, networking systems and everything in between.
  • Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world.
  • Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
  • Partner alongside the best engineers in the industry working on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of people all around the world.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent accepted) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Completion of one undergraduate-level coursework, research project or internship must include experience in the following:
  • 1. UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals
  • 2. Coding experience
  • 3. Learning development languages (Python, C++, Rust, PHP/Hack, Go, Java)
  • 4. Learning software, frameworks and APIs
  • 5. Internet service architecture capacity planning and/or handling needs for urgent capacity augmentation
  • 6. Common web technologies and/or Internet service architectures (such as LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDN, Load Balancing techniques, etc.), and
  • 7. Configuring and running infrastructure level applications, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, etc.
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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.

$137,611/year to $200,200/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.


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