Director of Engineering, Capacity Management (Ads)
Meta· Engineering
Bellevue, WA$271k - $347kFull-timePosted 4d ago
About the role
Director of Engineering to lead capacity management for Meta's Ads organization, owning end-to-end capacity attribution, planning, governance, and clawback across 10+ platforms. Builds standards, tooling, telemetry, and processes for rate cards, demand-to-fulfillment planning, and efficiency measurements, while coordinating with platform, infrastructure, Finance, and Product leaders.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for ad's capacity management, efficiency, and attribution
- Build, manage, and support a team of senior engineering managers and senior individual contributors
- Define the capacity maturity model standards that ads platforms are measured against, and drive adoption across approximately ten platform organizations
- Own the end-to-end outcomes of the Ads capacity management program: complete attribution and chargeback of Ads-level capacity changes, and reliable fulfillment and clawback across platforms. Build the tooling and telemetry that replace manual tracking, so capacity consumption and efficiency gains are measurable and enforceable
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, Finance, and Product Area leaders to agree on roles, responsibilities, and headcount accounting, and to close identified capability gaps
- Frame infrastructure investment in terms of dollars, ROI, and risk for senior engineering and business leadership
- Identify new opportunities, risks, and priorities for the organization, and establish effective strategies to execute against them
- Foster a culture of rigorous execution and high standards for engineering quality
- Uphold the principles of respect, integrity, collaboration, and innovation
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or a related technical discipline
- 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers
- Experience leading large-scale infrastructure efforts (capacity management, fleet or cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale platform engineering)
- Experience leading a large cross-organizational program (100+ people across multiple organizations) with end-to-end ownership
- Experience allocating headcount or investment across organizations not directly managed and governing outcomes
- Experience influencing senior engineering and cross-functional leaders, including at VP level
- Experience framing technical investments in business terms (cost, ROI, risk)
- Experience in recruiting, building, structuring, and leading technical organizations, including performance management
- Ability to tackle technical to strategic problem spectrum
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Skills
Required:Technical leadership and strategyProgram management
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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