Production Engineer

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Facebook Full time
Production Engineers at Facebook are hybrid software/systems engineers who ensure that Facebook's services run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. They are embedded in every one of Facebook's product and infrastructure teams, and are core participants in every significant engineering effort underway in the company.Our team is comprised of varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new grads to industry. Relevant industry experience is important, but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We sail into uncharted waters every day at Facebook in Production Engineering, and we are always learning.This position is full-time.

Production Engineer Responsibilities:



  • Own back-end services like our Hadoop data warehouses, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between
  • Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
  • Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
  • Partnered 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 millions of users all around the world


Minimum Qualifications:



  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of experience in UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals
  • 7+ years of coding experience
  • Experience learning development languages (PHP, Python, C++, and Java)
  • Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
  • Experience performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures
  • Knowledge in internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN's)
  • Experience in configurating and maintaining of applications such as Apache, Memcached, Squid, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP


Preferred Qualifications:



  • BS or MS in Computer Science

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