Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications.
Requirements
- 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
- Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
- Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
- Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
- Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
- 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
- Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
- Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
- Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
- Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
Other
- Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
- 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
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
