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Software Engineer, Systems

Meta· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$184k - $257kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in systems software to drive technical direction across large-scale infrastructure and platform engineering. The role focuses on foundational runtime that powers containers and virtual machines, coordinating workload artifacts and compute resources while enforcing performance, reliability, security, and resource isolation boundaries across Meta’s compute fleet.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for large-scale systems software, including platform services, runtime environments, and low-level infrastructure components
  • Architect systems-level solutions that address performance, reliability, and scalability requirements across distributed infrastructure serving billions of users
  • Work on technically challenging systems at global scale, spanning Linux systems programming, container and virtual machine lifecycle management, resource control, workload isolation, performance, and fleet reliability
  • The broader platform provides a common foundation for deploying and operating services across Meta’s infrastructure

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of experience in systems software engineering, including design and implementation of operating system interfaces, runtime environments, distributed infrastructure, or low-level platform services
  • Set and drive the technical direction for container runtime and isolation stack
  • Improve fleet-wide efficiency and reliability of container-based workloads: resource enforcement, noisy-neighbor isolation, and density at millions-of-servers scale
  • Extend runtime and isolation primitives to support AI training and inference workloads (accelerator isolation, large-memory and high-bandwidth jobs, gang-scheduled work)
  • Partner with kernel, scheduler, capacity, and hardware teams on hardware-software co-design and multi-generational fleet transitions
  • Mentor engineers, drive cross team design review, and represent teams container strategy within the Org

Skills

Required:Technical leadership and architectural visionLinux systems programmingContainer runtime and isolation stackDistributed infrastructureMentorship and cross-team collaboration
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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