Performance and Capacity Engineer

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.

As a Performance and Capacity Engineer at Meta, you will:

• Work with Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the infrastructure.
• Own end-to-end product design, launch, and operation: Support the design and development of novel performance tooling and infrastructure.
• Tackle hardware/software performance issues: Analyze and debug difficult server performance issues, identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience.
• Solve software performance issues: Work with software developers closely to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency.
• Develop tools to monitor billions of user requests: monitoring, reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.
• Provide deepest visibility to what is going on for all products: Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.
• Work across engineering function to develop cutting-edge technologies for performance analysis and remediation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or a related field
• 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation
• Experience with coding & scripting languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, PHP or Python
• Experience in software engineering
• Experience with analytical budgeting and planning
• Experience with Performance monitoring, tuning, benchmarking and modeling
• Understanding of cloud and distributed systems components, building blocks and concepts
• Technical Presentation Skills (written/oral)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and in a collaborative team environment
• Experience designing dashboards

Meta offers competitive compensation, including base salary, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. Join us in shaping the future of social technology beyond the constraints of screens, distance, and even the rules of physics.