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 involves overseeing complex technical problems, building new features, and improving existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications, to advance the way 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 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
- Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
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
- 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
- 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
Other
- Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
- Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
- Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
