Network Production Engineer

$105,000 - $173,000/Yr

Meta - Menlo Park, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Menlo Park, CA

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About the position

Meta is seeking a Network Production Engineer to join the Network Infra team, responsible for deploying and managing one of the world's largest and most complex networks. The role focuses on automation and tooling to support network deployment and maintenance, ensuring operational efficiency and scalability. The engineer will collaborate with top industry professionals to develop systems that manage Meta's global network, impacting billions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, build, and maintain automation and tools to support New Product Introductions, network deployment and operations.
• Develop operational process improvements and implement them in scalable, automated workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
• Design and develop provisioning solutions that scale across a variety of hardware platforms of network equipment.
• Lead enhancements of automation for continuous integration, validations, release, and configuration management across our global backbone and edge networks.
• Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.
• Participate in an oncall rotation with the rest of the Provisioning and Delivery Team.
• Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan and drive the project and influence other teams to reach there.
• Help increase operational efficiency between peers and cross-functional teams by identifying roadblocks, designing and delivering automation solutions, and driving change.
• Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing software on operating systems such as Linux.
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing automation and tools for network deployments and operations.
• 3+ years of experience building software for network infrastructure.
• 2+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one network vendor (e.g. Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, etc.).
• 3+ years of coding experience in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, GO, C++, or Java), and rapidly learning new development languages.
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, Routing Protocols (one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS, or similar), and related network services (e.g. DHCP and DNS).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with software and network debugging, profiling, and instrumentation techniques.
• Additional experience in developing automation tools for network operations such as provisioning (e.g. ZTP), deployments, monitoring, remediation, software push systems in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with developing distributed systems and operating them at scale.
• MS or Graduate work experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $105,000/year to $173,000/year.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.