Software Engineering
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
LocationNew York, NY
Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering team. The position is full-time and is based in our New York office. There are minimal travel requirements for this position. Infrastructure Engineering builds large, distributed components that run Facebook. Our code serves millions of requests per second, and it does so with subsecond latency and in a fault tolerant manner. We handle everything from Facebook scale data storage, to synchronization and coordination of large server clusters, to providing a runtime environment for front end Facebook code. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.
Responsibilities
- Design core, backend software components
- Code using primarily C/C++, Java, and PHP
- Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Requirements
- B.S. Computer Science or related field preferred
- Extensive experience building large-scale server applications
- Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ or Java/C#
- Knowledge of Perl, PHP or Python a plus
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers also a plus
