Software Engineer

About the position

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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop, build and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for large distributed components that run applications.
• Build new features and improve existing products.
• Work on problems of diverse scope and design core, backend software components.
• Handle large scale data storage, synchronization and coordination of large server cluster, and provide a runtime environment for front end code.
• Receiving little instruction on day-to-day work, code using primarily C/C++, Java, PHP and Hack.
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.
• Complete medium to large features (each with many tasks) independently without guidance.
• Identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, product area and/or systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Requires completion of an undergraduate-level course, research project, or internship involving coding in C, C++, Java, or C#.
• Building large-scale infrastructure applications.
• Designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance.
• Experience owning a particular component, feature or system.
• Python, PHP, or Haskell.
• Relational databases and SQL.
• Software development tools: Code editors (VIM or Emacs), and revision control systems (Subversion, GIT, or Perforce).
• Linux, UNIX, or other *nix-like OS including file manipulation and simple commands.
• Core web technologies: HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
• Building highly-scalable performant solutions.
• Designing scalable distributed systems with established partition tolerance, consistency, and availability guarantees.
• Data processing, programming languages, databases, networking, operating systems, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package