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Manager – Software Engineering – Fboss – Facebook Open Switching System
Company | Meta |
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Location | Menlo Park, CA, USA |
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Salary | $213000 – $293000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years experience managing a networking-related software engineering team in a fast-paced environment.
- 2+ years of experience managing technical managers.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers directly as well as through other managers.
- Working knowledge of control-plane and dataplane aspects of network switches.
Responsibilities
- Develop the vision and strategy to help set direction for the team, while staying on top of the day-to-day software development. Hold your own in technical discussions, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence.
- Help define and drive regular development of a technical roadmap to meet the needs of the team and partner teams.
- Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapting quickly to new information and re-prioritizing as needed.
- Manage engineers working to build, scale, deploy and support network systems for our global network infrastructure.
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.
- Help engineers develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles.
- Set clear expectations and create a work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
- Interact with external partners in resolving dependencies associated with objectives.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional hardware, software, and network engineering teams.
- Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth experience with forwarding, congestion-control, and telemetry aspects of network switches.
- Experience with merchant silicon NPUs and their SDKs.
- Experience working with open source networking projects.