Manager, Production Engineering

Meta's Platform Security team builds solutions used to verify the integrity of our servers and the workloads that run on them. This is used for internal security controls and to power customer-facing offerings like WhatsApp Private Processing.We are a worldwide team of Software and Production Engineers with experience in the hardware and low-level systems. In supporting the team, you'll work closely with our partners in Security Engineering, AI Infrastructure to provide the leadership direction and expertise necessary to translate emerging hardware features into a platform offering for Meta's product groups. You'll partner with teams across our larger Infrastructure org, including those responsible for hardware development, to bring these solutions to reality and help ensure the security and safety for all of our billions of users.Production Engineering is a hybrid software/systems group that ensures Meta's services and products run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with Meta's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions.Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization.

• Support and lead engineers and managers working on Meta's products and services, at different layers of the stack, on challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance and efficiency of systems
• Understand and contribute to technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges
• Drive technical architecture discussions, even on subjects you haven't had direct experience working with
• Develop lasting partnerships with product management, program management, network engineering, software engineering and other related groups to build and improve our ever-growing large-scale distributed infrastructure and product environment
• Empower engineers and managers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
• Help build and enrich a healthy work environment
• Assess employee performance on an ongoing basis, address under-performance, and recognize and promote performance
• Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team including interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees
• Balance the need to "keep things running" with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects

• 6+ years of direct management experience in a technology role
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience with systems, networking, and troubleshooting
• Experience drafting and reviewing code
• Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance
• Communication and cross-collaboration experience

• Experience building Infrastructure product offerings