Software Engineer III

Job Description

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive project technical direction and effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Technical design, implement and test (unit and end to end) complex project features and ensure hitting the project release timeline.
• Design and develop APIs, or backend systems across a number of programming languages such as Python, PHP (Hack), Java or C++
• Master Meta's standards from developing to releasing code in order to take on tasks and projects with increasing levels of complexity
• Work closely with infrastructure and operations teams to build and scale back-end services
• Debug and figure out issues and business logic in complex data flows.
• Day to day activities include but are not limited to
• Collaborating with TL, other engineers and other XFN teams to implement the backend data processing logic. Skills used: Hack (php), Hive, Thrift / RPC
• Working on data logging flows and handling business logic, mid layer API connection with backend, skills used: Hack (php), Database, Memecache.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Experience in influencing senior engineers across organizations
• Proven track record of delivering complex projects within a challenging timeline.
• Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Proficient on Hack (PHP), Python, Java or any object oriented programming language.
• Familiar with Thrift framework/libraries and databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Computer Science or related field
• Experience shipping products to millions of customers or having started a new line of product
• Experience building and scaling large products or systems
• Experience with building privacy and ads related products is a big plus.
• Self-driven and the willingness to learn new things are big pluses
• Prior experience in working with Facebook or Facebook internal tools is a plus.

This is the pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position $56.82/hour - $78.66/hour

Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K

The Meta CWX Program is enabled by a cutting-edge software platform called TalentNet that leads the contingent labor world for technology innovation. The software platform leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make sure the right people end up in the right job.

At Meta, we are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect people all over the world. That’s why it’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of the people we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps us make better decisions, build better products, and create better experiences for everyone.

We give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support, and make a difference.