Production Engineer - Backbone Network

Production Engineers at Meta are software engineers who focus on the reliability, scalability, performance, privacy and security of Meta Products - such as WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger and our business platforms such as Ads, Business Messaging and Commerce. Through an experienced understanding of production services, and an interest in exploring for automation solutions, they allow our product teams to deliver new features quickly while maintaining user experience. They are embedded in Facebook's product teams and are core participants in every significant engineering effort. Our team members come with varying levels of experience and broadbackgrounds. We sail into uncharted waters every day at Meta in Production Engineering, and we are always learning.This position is full time.

Production Engineer - Backbone Network Responsibilities:

• Develop and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
• Own the end to end reliability and scalability of the backbone networks and the services developed to allow them to operate at scale
• Together with your partner engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for live service incidents
• Work alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of users all around the world
• Manage and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol datacenter, backbone and edge networks
• Define and develop optimized network monitoring systems

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g. C++, GoLang, Python, or PHP)
• Experience with software development, frameworks and APIs
• Experience building, maintaining, and debugging production services/platforms such as cloud services, infrastructure services, load balancers, relational databases, and messaging systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed web-scale systems
• Depth of understanding in routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF and ISIS
• Depth of understanding in areas such as operating systems or TCP/IP network fundamentals

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: a1KDp00000E2evfMAB_1001

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-07T20:02:28