Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click "Apply to Job" online on this web page.

Performance and Capacity Engineer Responsibilities

• Scale the largest web capacity in the world.


• Work with Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the infrastructure.


• Own end-to-end product design, launch, and operation.


• Support architecture design, define networking requirement, and help code build from scratch to support new product launch.


• Tackle state-of-the-art hardware and software performance issues.


• Analyze and debug difficult server performance issues, identify bottlenecks, and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience.


• Work with software developers closely to improve code base performance (e.g.


• algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency.


• Plan the largest server and data center capacity.


• Own and drive overall Meta Platform capacity planning work for all different products/services and recommend DC expansion plan.


• Write monitoring, reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.


• Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.


• Own company server budget and track it.


• Present performance and capacity roadmap for critical project and cost analyses in presentation and written form monthly to executive teams.


• Work with financial analysts, operations and engineering to perform cutting-edge technologies investigation and cost analysis.


• Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Sciences, Physics, or related field. Position also requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in the following:


• 1. Coding & scripting languages including C, C++, C #, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Golang, or Bash


• 2. Data Analysis, budgeting, or planning


• 3. Working with cross-functional teams and


• 4. Working with micro service-based architecture.

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