Meta is seeking a Production Engineer to join their infrastructure team in London. This role represents a unique hybrid between software and systems engineering, focused on ensuring Meta's services run smoothly and can scale for future growth. Production Engineers are embedded across all of Meta's product and infrastructure teams, playing crucial roles in every major engineering initiative.
The position requires a seasoned professional with 7+ years of experience in both UNIX systems and coding, who will be responsible for managing critical infrastructure components from Hadoop data warehouses to front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed. You'll be working with cutting-edge technology at massive scale, directly impacting millions of users worldwide.
As a Production Engineer, you'll be involved in writing and reviewing code, developing documentation, creating capacity plans, and debugging complex problems in live production environments. The role includes participation in an on-call rotation, requiring strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle high-pressure situations.
Meta offers an environment where you'll work alongside some of the industry's best engineers, contributing to systems that operate at unprecedented scale. The company is now moving beyond traditional social media into exciting new territories like augmented and virtual reality, making this an excellent opportunity for engineers who want to shape the future of digital connection.
The ideal candidate should have a strong technical foundation with experience in various programming languages (PHP, Python, C++, Java) and extensive knowledge of internet service architectures. You'll need to be comfortable with infrastructure components like load balancers, CDNs, and various application servers. This role offers the opportunity to work on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world while contributing to technology that connects billions of people.