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Performance and Capacity Engineer, Tooling
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Meta is seeking a Performance and Capacity Engineer to join the Capacity team to focus on planning and delivering capacity to Meta products and platforms. This person would be required to work cross-functionally with a number of teams to ensure optimal operation and growth of our computing resources from both a cost and technology perspective. Tens of billions of user requests, hundreds of peta bytes of data, thousands of giga bps of network flow. Help build one of the largest Internet services in the world!
Performance and Capacity Engineer, Tooling Responsibilities
- Work with Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to manage capacity and scale the infrastructure
- Tackle the state-of-the-art hardware performance issues. Analyze and debug difficult server performance issues (latest in industry), identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience
- Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions
- Develop coolest tools to monitor billions of user requests: Create monitoring, reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis
- Develop tooling & automation and optimize for capacity accounting, resource management, and infrastructure operations
- Tackle and analyze operational issues in the Meta’s infrastructure
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field
- 10+ years of experience in performance or software engineering
- 10+ years of experience in coding & scripting languages such as C, C++, C #, Java, PHP, Python or Perl
- Experience working with large scale systems
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Experience with software development practices such as source control, code reviews, unit testing, debugging and profiling
Preferred Qualifications
- MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field
- Understanding of infrastructure capacity management tools and processes
- Experience in infrastructure operations and technical infrastructure knowledge
- Experience working on ambiguous problems and managing uncertainty
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Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps 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. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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