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Software Engineering Manager

Meta· Engineering
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$219k - $301kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Meta seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams and technical leaders, driving technical strategy, roadmaps, and high-quality execution on large-scale software systems. The role stays hands-on, leverages AI tools to expand delivery capacity, and promotes cross-functional ownership with product, design, and data science to serve billions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Manage multiple teams of engineers and technical leaders delivering on large-scale, high-impact software projects with multiple levels of dependencies
  • Actively shape technical strategy and roadmap direction, using team-wide insights to set and prioritize longer-term engineering goals
  • Stay technically engaged by using AI tools to evaluate technical direction, assess code quality, and contribute directly across teams
  • Drive AI adoption within the team to expand delivery capacity and improve engineering workflows and tooling
  • Proactively detect and resolve the largest execution challenges across teams, whether related to vision, strategy, technical direction, or people
  • Build and grow the team by sourcing and closing candidates, developing technical leaders, and maintaining a high bar for performance including AI fluency
  • Ensure org health by monitoring team sentiment, diagnosing issues, and taking proactive measures to maintain high retention and engagement
  • Model cross-functional ownership by ensuring engineers engage substantively with product, design, and data partners rather than operating in silos
  • Hold leaders accountable for managing performance, delivering constructive feedback, and maintaining engineering craft standards across the organization
  • Represent the team's work and progress to broader organizational leadership, communicating risks, priorities, and implications of AI adoption clearly

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on technical contribution
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience, including managing teams with technical leaders or other managers
  • Experience driving technical strategy and roadmap planning across multiple concurrent large-scale software projects
  • Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent, including performance management of leaders
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with product, design, and data science to define requirements and deliver software at scale

Skills

Required:Software engineeringEngineering managementTechnical strategy and roadmap planningCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:AI fluency

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits (as listed by Meta)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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