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Software Engineer – Systems
| Company | Meta |
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| Location | Menlo Park, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $206315 – $214568 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field
- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation
- 5 years of experience in C, C++, Java, C#, Hack or other relevant coding languages
- Building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience in a corporate or start-up environment
- Designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance
- Experience owning a particular component, feature or system
- Experience in Python, PHP, or Haskell
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity with software development tools: Code editors (VIM or Emacs), and revision control systems (Subversion, GIT, or Perforce)
- Experience with Linux, UNIX, or other *nix-like OS including file manipulation and simple commands
- Knowledge of core web technologies: HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
- Experience building highly-scalable performant solutions
- Ability to design scalable distributed systems with established partition tolerance, consistency, and availability guarantees
- Experience in data processing, programming languages, databases, networking, operating systems, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction
- Ability to apply algorithms and core computer science concepts to real world systems as evidenced by recognizing and matching patterns from different areas of computer science in production systems.
Responsibilities
- Research, design, develop, build and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for large distributed components that run Facebook
- Build new features and improve existing products
- Work on problems of diverse scope and design core, backend software components
- Handle Facebook scale data storage, synchronization and coordination of large server cluster, and provide a runtime environment for front end Facebook code
- Receive little instruction on day-to-day work, code using primarily C/C++, Java, PHP and Hack
- 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
- Complete medium to large features (each with many tasks) independently without guidance
- Identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, product area and/or systems.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
