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Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Central Growth

Meta· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA, Hybrid (Multiple locations)$271k - $347kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Meta is seeking experienced engineers for the Central Growth team to maximize user growth across Meta apps and devices. The role focuses on defining multi-year technical vision, solving cross-system engineering problems, establishing extensible foundations, and leading cross-functional initiatives to build AI-native systems with measurable global impact.

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 the most 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

  • 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
  • 12+ years of programming experience
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision

Skills

Required:Large-scale application developmentProgrammingWeb or mobile technologiesCross-functional leadershipMentoring engineers

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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