Careers at Facebook
Infrastructure
Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure
LocationMenlo Park, CA - Seattle, WA
Facebook was built to help people connect and share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in changing how people around the world communicate with one another. With over a billion people using the service and more than fifty offices around the globe, a career at Facebook offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization.
Facebook’s Traffic team is seeking experienced software engineers to build terabit class systems for balancing and managing application traffic. Our Traffic team builds global and local load balancers, acceleration proxies, RPC frameworks, content delivery networks, and mobile networking stacks, plus the automation machinery that’s required to operate an internet scale edge network and handle all of Facebook’s DNS and HTTP traffic. We operate a large network of POPs around the world that we use to accelerate site traffic and cache CDN content, and we own all layer 4 and layer 7 traffic management for Facebook. We glue these varied network services together in order to orchestrate the delivery of bits from our servers to your phone or desktop.
Responsibilities
- Develop DNS and HTTP stacks to run on varied devices and servers
- Implement and integrate next generation protocols like SPDY and HTTP2
- Collaborate with Network Engineering team to design and build our next generation edge network
- Design load balancing software to optimize traffic flow between data centers and POPs
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of network infrastructure
- Make Facebook fast and keep the site up
- Conduct design and code reviews
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 2+ years of experience developing and debugging system level services in C, C++, Python, or Java, particularly on Linux
- 2+ years of experience with one or more of: filesystems, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, distributed systems
- Experience replacing network hardware devices with software services
- Experience developing and debugging networking protocols (HTTP, SSL, SPDY, and TCP)
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Facebook is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.
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