Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join their teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. The role aims to oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, pushing the boundaries of user experience and advancing how people connect globally.
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 communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Swift, or Kotlin, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
- 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale applications or similar experience
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
- Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
- 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
- Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
- Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
