Manager, Production Engineering
11 Months ago • 4 Years +
Product Management
Job Description
Production Engineering is a hybrid software/systems group that ensures Meta's services and products run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with Meta's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions. Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization. Responsibilities include: supporting and leading engineers working on Meta's infrastructure, understanding and contributing to technical architectures, driving technical architecture discussions, developing lasting partnerships with product management, program management, network engineering, software engineering, empowering engineers to develop their careers, assessing employee performance, working closely with dedicated recruiting staff, and balancing the need to keep things running with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects.
Good To Have:
- Experience in utilizing defense in depth strategies to protect crucial system and network infrastructure and the applications and services that rely on it.
- Experience in threat modeling and understanding attacker techniques and exploits, as well as the experience to develop effective defenses against them
Must Have:
- 4+ years of direct management experience in a technology role
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Experience with systems, networking, and troubleshooting
- Experience drafting and reviewing code
- Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance
- Communication and cross-collaboration experience
Production Engineering is a hybrid software/systems group that ensures Meta's services and products run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with Meta's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions. Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization.
Manager, Production Engineering Responsibilities
- Support and lead engineers working on Meta's infrastructure, at different layers of the stack, on challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, efficiency and security of systems
- Understand and contribute to technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges
- Drive technical architecture discussions, even on subjects you haven't had direct experience working with
- Develop lasting partnerships with product management, program management, network engineering, software engineering and other related groups to build and improve our ever-growing large-scale distributed infrastructure and product environment
- Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
- Help build and enrich an inclusive work environment comprised of people from diverse backgrounds
- Assess employee performance on an ongoing basis, address under-performance, and recognize and promote performance
- Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team including interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees
- Balance the need to “keep things running” with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of direct management experience in a technology role
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Experience with systems, networking, and troubleshooting
- Experience drafting and reviewing code
- Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance
- Communication and cross-collaboration experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in utilizing defense in depth strategies to protect crucial system and network infrastructure and the applications and services that rely on it.
- Experience in threat modeling and understanding attacker techniques and exploits, as well as the experience to develop effective defenses against them
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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.
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