Software Engineer, Systems

Meta • United States, United States • 6h ago

Summary:

Meta is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to design and build the foundational software infrastructure that powers products used by billions of people worldwide. In this role, you will architect and own large-scale distributed systems, low-level platform software, and critical infrastructure components that underpin Meta's family of applications and services. You will drive technical strategy across system reliability, performance, and scalability, partnering closely with product engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver systems that are resilient, efficient, and built to evolve. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the systems engineering culture and technical direction at one of the world's most complex software organizations.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer, Systems Responsibilities:

Architect and own large-scale distributed systems and platform infrastructure components, driving end-to-end technical design from requirements through production

Lead the design and implementation of high-performance, low-latency systems with well-defined service level objectives, dashboards, and incident response runbooks

Identify systemic reliability risks, reduce failure surface across service dependencies, and drive resiliency testing including overload and outage scenarios

Establish and enforce systems engineering best practices across the team, including safe rollout strategies, feature flagging, staged releases, and automated deployment pipelines

Use instrumentation and profiling to identify performance bottlenecks, establish visibility into key system metrics, and drive measurable improvements in throughput and latency

Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product engineering, data infrastructure, and operations to align on technical requirements and deliver scalable platform solutions

Proactively incorporate privacy, security, and integrity principles into system design at early engineering stages, partnering with relevant teams to apply appropriate safeguards

Mentor other engineers on systems design patterns, debugging methodologies, and AI-accelerated development workflows, and contribute to onboarding and engineering programs

Drive roadmapping and technical strategy for one or more platform areas, communicating trade-offs and architectural decisions clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

Leverage AI tools and automation to accelerate development velocity, reduce toil, and improve the reliability and observability of owned systems

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure software

Experience owning system reliability end-to-end, including defining service level objectives, building observability tooling, and leading incident response and retrospectives

Experience leading technical design of complex systems, including evaluating architectural trade-offs and driving cross-team alignment on implementation decisions

Experience with performance profiling, capacity planning, and optimization of high-throughput or low-latency systems

Track record of successfully delivering major infrastructure initiatives, including coordinating rollouts, migrations, and dependency management across multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/@context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Experience with systems programming in C, C++, Rust, or similar low-level languages in a production environment at scale

Background in contributing to or defining organization-wide systems engineering standards, coding guidelines, or reliability frameworks

Experience applying AI-assisted development workflows to systems engineering problems, including code generation, anomaly detection, or automated root cause analysis

Demonstrated ability to build and improve developer tooling, automation frameworks, or internal platform abstractions that measurably improve engineering efficiency across teams

Public Compensation:

$183,997/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereo@types, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

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