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Production Network Manager, Backbone Engineering

Meta· Network Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$219k - $301kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Meta is seeking a Production Network Manager to lead and grow the Backbone and Edge Engineering team focused on the Software Defined Express Backbone Network. The role combines technical leadership with people management to design, implement, and support one of the world’s largest networks, collaborating across backbone, edge, data center, and software infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

  • Be a highly technical manager
  • Hold your own in technical discussions, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence
  • Help define and drive regular development of the technical roadmap to meet the needs of the team, and partner teams
  • Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapting quickly to new information and re-prioritizing as needed
  • Manage engineers working to design, build, scale, deploy, and support networks and systems for our Express Backbone network infrastructure
  • Partner closely with Facebook backbone, edge, data center, and hardware network engineering teams and other software infrastructure teams
  • Manage and develop a team of engineers
  • Help engineers develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, and career goals
  • Assess employee performance frequently, address under-performance, and recognize and promote excellent performance
  • Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and onboarding new employees
  • Communicate cross-functionally and drive engineering efforts

Qualifications

  • Experience managing a networking-related software engineering team
  • Knowledge of networking and distributed systems
  • Experience in network management systems for large-scale networks
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals

Skills

Required:Networking and distributed systemsNetwork management systems

Benefits

  • Benefit details not listed in the description; refer to company benefits page for specifics.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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