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Network Production Engineer, DC Frontier

Meta· Network Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$154k - $217kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Hybrid software and network engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating Meta’s global datacenter and backbone networks. Responsible for end-to-end lifecycle including planning, design, QA, deployment, and monitoring, with emphasis on scalable automation, data analytics, and AI-related networking challenges in DC Frontier, backbone, and edge contexts.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and implement global best practices and design new scalable network solutions
  • Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools to support new product introductions, network deployment, release engineering, and operations
  • Design and develop solutions that scale across a variety of hardware platforms of network equipment
  • Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validations, testing infrastructure, release, and configuration management across our global backbone, data center, and edge networks
  • Work closely with our hardware, software, and sourcing teams to develop new networking solutions and influence the future of networking and its associated infrastructure
  • Conduct thorough investigations into complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
  • Develop operational process improvements and implement them in scalable, automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency
  • Help increase operational efficiency between peers and cross-functional teams by identifying roadblocks, designing and delivering automation solutions, and driving change
  • Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, drive the project, and influence other teams to reach there
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to learn from real-world production challenges and take the lessons to improve current and future generation products
  • Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of experience planning, designing, building, and/or operating scalable and reliable systems and/or networks
  • Experience coding in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Rust, or Java) and rapidly learning new development languages, software, frameworks, and APIs
  • Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), and related network services (e.g., DHCP and DNS)
  • Experience developing and understanding network device configuration in multi-vendor environments (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.)
  • Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, and messaging systems
  • Hardware evaluation and vendor management experience

Skills

Required:ProgrammingTCP/IPNetworking hardware configurationAutomation / SDN

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced in job description (explicit benefits not enumerated in the text)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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