Capacity Planning Optimization Lead - Fleet Economy and Planning
Role Overview
Lead capacity planning and infrastructure efficiency across Meta’s global server, data center, and network resources.
The role connects software performance analysis, hardware utilization, and long-range capacity planning for Meta products and AI workloads.
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Role overview
Lead capacity planning and infrastructure efficiency across Meta’s global server, data center, and network resources.
The role connects software performance analysis, hardware utilization, and long-range capacity planning for Meta products and AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- Own capacity planning for Meta products and services and determine how to scale server and data center resources efficiently.
- Build and execute end-to-end pricing policies and processes for virtual and physical resources.
- Design and operate integrated planning across strategic, tactical/operational, and execution horizons.
- Develop company-wide infrastructure planning programs, strategies, and methodologies.
- Partner with Finance and business teams to balance cost efficiency with technical and product needs.
- Develop scenarios and trade-offs for major infrastructure decisions; communicate pricing and planning decisions to executives.
- Contribute to tools and technology strategy, and work cross-functionally to define problems, collect data, and recommend optimization.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; the posting also lists a directly related bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 16+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or hardware, with strategy, capacity planning, or technology strategy consulting experience.
- Experience leading enterprise planning processes with frequent executive interaction.
- Experience translating complex data and ambiguity into recommendations; applying business and financial analysis; framing infrastructure problems and strategies; and completing multiple optimization projects.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience establishing infrastructure planning processes at hyperscale cloud or infrastructure providers is preferred.
- AI tools and ongoing AI skill development for workflow optimization are preferred, including prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration.
- Experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices is preferred.
Compensation
- Base salary is $219,000–$301,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.
- Individual compensation depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and develops augmented and virtual reality experiences.
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