Meta's Network Infrastructure team seeks experienced Production Engineers to design, build, and operate a globally massive network.  Responsibilities include developing and deploying systems for reliable network operation, establishing best practices, collaborating with hardware/software vendors, participating in on-call rotations, and leading projects to solve complex scaling challenges for billions of users and AI workloads.  This hybrid software/network engineering role requires expertise in network design, scalability, and reliability across the entire lifecycle.

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Product Design Engineer, Reality Labs

Software Engineer, Computer Vision (Technical Leadership)

<div class="_8muv"><div><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _94t2">The Network Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, building and operating one of the largest networks in the world. Networking is at the core of all Meta products and experiences, and we are looking for seasoned Production Engineers who are interested in solving complex technical challenges in the Backbone or Datacenter Network domains.

Production Network Engineers at Meta are hybrid software and network engineers who keep reliability and scalability in mind as they work on different parts of the lifecycle (designing, building, and operating our worldwide network). 

This role offers an opportunity to solve the scaling challenges of supporting billions of people using our family of apps; to cutting-edge challenges in AI workloads that power new Meta products.</div><div class="_9bm9"></div><div class="_8mlh"><div class="_1n-z _6hy- _8lfs">Network Production Engineer, Network Infrastructure Responsibilities</div><div class="_h46 _8lfy _8lfy"><div><ul class="_1zi1 _pkr"><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Conceiving, developing, and deploying systems and tools to keep the network running reliably and efficiently</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Establish and implement global best practices and contribute to the design of new scalable network solutions</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Define and partner with network hardware, software, and vendor teams on the development of network platforms</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Participate in an on-call rotation to support the global network infrastructure and analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Lead projects to address hard technical challenges, directly contributing to roadmaps and partner alongside the best engineers in the industry to develop reliable and scalable solutions</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Help onboard new team members while working with other technical leads and managers to make the team a success</div></div></div></li></div></ul></div></div></div><div class="_8mlh"><div class="_1n-z _6hy- _8lfs">Minimum Qualifications</div><div class="_h46 _8lfy _8lfy"><div><ul class="_1zi1 _pkr"><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">7+ years of relevant experience developing scalable and reliable systems and/or networks</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Rust, etc)</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Experience developing and understanding network device configuration for at least one vendor (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.)</div></div></div></li></div></ul></div></div></div><div class="_8mlh"><div class="_1n-z _6hy- _8lfs">Preferred Qualifications</div><div class="_h46 _8lfy _8lfy"><div><ul class="_1zi1 _pkr"><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Protocol knowledge in one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS or similar routing protocols - knowledge in typical configurations and performance tuning</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Understanding of routing and switching - hardware design and knowledge of forwarding and data planes</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Understanding of RDMA congestion control mechanisms on IB and RoCE Networks.</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Understanding of AI training workloads and demands they exert on networks.</div></div></div></li></div><div class="_1zh- _8lfz"><li class="_l89 _l8f _l8e"><div class="_620i"></div><div></div><div style=";" class="_38io _30jd _9aou"><div class="_h46 _8lfz"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy- _8lf-">Understanding of the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.</div></div></div></li></div></ul></div></div></div><div class="_20nr"><div class="_1n-_ _6hy-"> For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click  for additional 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