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Director, Software Engineer - WhatsApp

Meta· Engineering
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BangaloreFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Engineering leadership role overseeing the WhatsApp Services team in India, responsible for delivering high-priority initiatives, defining strategy, and building scaleable engineering organizations across multiple teams and products.

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage and support varied teams of engineers and engineering managers delivering one of the highest-priority initiatives across WhatsApp and Meta.
  • Define and execute engineering strategy and multi-team roadmaps that balance technical investment, emerging capabilities and business priorities.
  • Establish a shared technical vision across the company (WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger) and ensure all teams are clear on the strategy, the problem to solve, the timeline and the contribution required of them.
  • Build and scale the engineering organization by attracting, developing and retaining engineers and engineering managers across multiple teams.
  • Establish team structures and operating models that maximize impact while minimizing organizational complexity and execution overhead.
  • Partner with product, design and data science counterparts to drive shared accountability for outcomes across the full product development lifecycle.
  • Proactively identify and resolve the largest cross-functional execution risks, including vision gaps, dependency conflicts and organizational blockers, escalating clearly when team priorities conflict.
  • Cultivate a culture of executional excellence and analytical rigor, driving process improvements across teams and functions that reduce operational overhead and accelerate delivery.
  • Champion engineering craft and quality standards across teams, fostering a self-reinforcing culture of continuous improvement.
  • Monitor and act on organizational health signals to maintain high engagement, low attrition and effective team dynamics across reporting lines.
  • Develop a leadership bench through both external hiring and internal growth, and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives including recruiting, mentorship and technical standards.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of technical industry experience in software engineering
  • 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing other engineering managers
  • Track record of building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting, developing and retaining engineers and engineering managers
  • Proven track record of delivering and operating large-scale production systems
  • Experience establishing technical strategy and organizational roadmaps across multiple teams, with demonstrated ability to drive execution against them
  • Experience forming cross-functional partnerships across product, design and data science to deliver large-scale engineering outcomes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Required:Technical leadership and strategyPeople management and organization building

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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