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Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Meta· Network Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$154k - $217kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Meta's Network Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates software systems that power a large-scale global network. The role focuses on designing and developing software to manage, automate, and optimize Meta's network infrastructure across data centers, backbone networks, and edge services, blending distributed systems with network engineering to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability for billions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop software systems for network infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational tooling across Meta's global network
  • Build and maintain distributed services that manage network device state, topology, and telemetry at scale
  • Develop and improve network monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms to reduce mean time to detection and mitigation during network incidents
  • Collaborate with network engineers and cross-functional partners to define requirements and translate them into reliable, scalable software solutions
  • Drive architecture decisions for network automation systems, evaluating trade-offs across reliability, performance, and operational complexity
  • Design and implement A/B testing and staged rollout frameworks for network configuration changes to reduce risk during deployments
  • Establish and maintain service level objectives for network infrastructure services, building dashboards and runbooks to support incident response
  • Identify and address performance bottlenecks in network control plane and data pipeline systems through instrumentation and profiling
  • Mentor other engineers on the team by sharing domain expertise, reviewing designs, and contributing to engineering standards and best practices
  • Lead retrospectives on network incidents and drive implementation of follow-up improvements to prevent recurrence

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on network infrastructure, distributed systems, or network automation
  • 6+ years of experience programming in C, C++, or Go in a production environment
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or network management platforms
  • Experience with network protocols and concepts such as BGP, OSPF, ECMP, switching, routing, or traffic engineering
  • Experience building observability systems including metrics collection, alerting, and dashboards for large-scale infrastructure

Skills

Required:Programming in C, C++, or GoDistributed systems design and operationNetwork protocols (BGP, OSPF, ECMP) and concepts

Benefits

  • benefits available at Meta (as described in posting)
  • bonus
  • equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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