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Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$271k - $347kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Meta's Central Growth organization seeks a distinguished Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across growth-focused product systems serving billions of users. Role combines deep technical leadership with cross-functional influence to shape architecture, multi-year technical visions, and foundational practices across Central Growth.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for large-scale product systems, ensuring designs are reliable, extensible, and capable of evolving with business needs
  • Identify and solve the most complex, cross-cutting engineering problems across multiple systems and abstraction layers, including issues that span organizational boundaries
  • Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and delivery velocity across engineering organizations
  • Lead cross-functional execution of org-wide technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving outcomes against defined milestones and metrics
  • Develop and operationalize engineering excellence programs including reliability standards, performance guardrails, and quality frameworks adopted across teams
  • Deeply understand privacy, security, and integrity vulnerabilities relevant to product systems and build robust technical safeguards in partnership with compliance and policy teams
  • Mentor engineers across the organization by providing candid feedback, customized coaching, and technical guidance on challenging system and feature design problems
  • Communicate complex technical strategies and trade-offs clearly to audiences ranging from individual contributors to executive leadership, producing artifacts used as long-term references
  • Identify systemic issues and recurring failure patterns across the organization, developing invariants and architectural improvements that prevent entire classes of problems
  • Recruit and develop engineers with skills critical to the team's success, role-modeling technical and cultural standards that strengthen the broader engineering community

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale software systems serving high-traffic, production environments
  • 12+ years of programming experience with demonstrated ability to solve complex, cross-system technical problems through direct implementation
  • Experience leading multi-year technical roadmaps and cross-organizational engineering initiatives from vision through execution
  • Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and functions through written proposals, architectural reviews, and stakeholder alignment
  • Experience mentoring engineers across an organization and driving engineering culture improvements through programs, standards, and direct coaching

Skills

Required:Technical vision and architecture leadershipCross-functional leadershipEngineering excellence programs

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced in posting (not enumerated here)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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