Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software systems for network infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational tooling across Meta's global network
• Build and maintain distributed services that manage network device state, topology, and telemetry at scale
• Develop and improve network monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms to reduce mean time to detection and mitigation during network incidents
• Collaborate with network engineers and cross-functional partners to define requirements and translate them into reliable, scalable software solutions
• Drive architecture decisions for network automation systems, evaluating trade-offs across reliability, performance, and operational complexity
• Design and implement A/B testing and staged rollout frameworks for network configuration changes to reduce risk during deployments
• Establish and maintain service level objectives for network infrastructure services, building dashboards and runbooks to support incident response
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in network control plane and data pipeline systems through instrumentation and profiling
• Mentor other engineers on the team by sharing domain expertise, reviewing designs, and contributing to engineering standards and best practices
• Lead retrospectives on network incidents and drive implementation of follow-up improvements to prevent recurrence

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on network infrastructure, distributed systems, or network automation
• 6+ years of experience programming in C, C++, or Go in a production environment
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or network management platforms
• Experience with network protocols and concepts such as BGP, OSPF, ECMP, switching, routing, or traffic engineering
• Experience building observability systems including metrics collection, alerting, and dashboards for large-scale infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN), network operating systems, or network device APIs such as OpenConfig or gNMI
• Experience with stream processing or time-series data pipelines for high-volume network telemetry
• Experience contributing to or operating on-call rotations for critical network infrastructure services
• Experience developing network automation frameworks for configuration management, topology discovery, or change validation at scale

Compensation

• $154,003/year - $217,000/year; Country: US; Bonus eligible; Equity eligible

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