Software Engineer (Leadership) - Infrastructure
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Job Description
Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team. The Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team builds large distributed components that run Facebook. Our code serves millions of requests per second and it does so with sub-second latency and in a fault-tolerant manner. We handle everything from Facebook scale data storage, to synchronization and coordination of large server clusters, to providing a runtime environment for front end Facebook code. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.
**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
Must have:
- Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
- Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
- Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
- Extensive experience coding in C, C++, Java and/or C#
- Significant experience building server applications
Good to have:
- B.S. Computer Science or related technical field
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers
3 skills required
Job Details
Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team. The Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team builds large distributed components that run Facebook. Our code serves millions of requests per second and it does so with sub-second latency and in a fault-tolerant manner. We handle everything from Facebook scale data storage, to synchronization and coordination of large server clusters, to providing a runtime environment for front end Facebook code. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.
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
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
- Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
- Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
- Extensive experience coding in C, C++, Java and/or C#
- Significant experience building server applications
Preferred Qualifications
- B.S. Computer Science or related technical field
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers
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