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Production Network Manager, Backbone Engineering

Meta· Network Engineering
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Hybrid (Dublin, Ireland)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role within Meta's Backbone and Edge Engineering team focused on the Software Defined Express Backbone Network. Lead a technically skilled team of engineers to design, build, scale, deploy, and support the Express Backbone infrastructure, while collaborating with backbone, edge, data center, and hardware network engineering 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 Meta 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 fundamentalsDistributed systems
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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