Capacity Planning Optimization Lead

Meta

$166K — $200K *
Information Technology
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 16+ years in Infrastructure/Cloud/Hardware management
  • Experience leading enterprise-level capacity planning processes
  • Skilled in distilling complex data for executive decisions
  • Strong background in business and financial analysis for recommendations
  • Proven experience in solving complex infrastructure challenges
  • Hands-on experience with multiple cloud and hardware optimization projects

Responsibilities

  • Own capacity planning for Meta's global infrastructure
  • Build and execute integrated planning methodologies
  • Align technical and business requirements across teams
  • Design transformational planning strategies for infrastructure
  • Collaborate with finance to optimize costs and technical goals
  • Manage emergent capacity needs in constrained environments
  • Develop and communicate decision scenarios for infrastructure investments

Benefits

  • Diverse and inclusive work environment
  • Access to advanced training and development opportunities
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a leading tech company
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
Full Job Description
Meta is seeking a Performance and Capacity Engineer to drive infrastructure efficiency and reliability across Meta's global fleet of servers, data centers, and network resources. In this role, you will lead the development of capacity modeling frameworks, performance benchmarking methodologies, and demand forecasting strategies that directly inform multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment decisions. You will operate at the intersection of software performance analysis, hardware utilization, and long-range capacity planning, ensuring Meta's products (including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and AI workloads) are supported by infrastructure that scales efficiently and reliably.

Responsibilities

Own infrastructure capacity planning for all of Meta: all software products/services and plans for how to scale server and data center resources most efficiently
• Build, own, and execute cohesive end-to-end Integrated Planning processes and methodologies across Strategic, Tactical/Operations, and Execution horizons and granularities
• Align requirements and expectations across all technical and business functions
• Leverage technical experience and expertise, to design and build company-wide transformational Planning programs, strategies, and methodologies across Infrastructure to scale Meta's infrastructure efficiently
• Partner with Finance and business teams to balance cost efficiency with technical and product considerations
• Manage unplanned emergent capacity requirements across all horizons in a constrained environment
• Develop decision scenarios and trade-offs to drive multi-billion dollar infrastructure decisions at the highest levels of the organization
• Own the communications strategy for planning processes and decisions, including executive-level communications and status updates
• Use technical judgment and experience to contribute to tools and technology strategy for Planning
• Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, and make recommendations to drive change and optimization at the company level

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Bachelor's degree in a management, technical or engineering field
• 16+ years of experience working in Infrastructure/Cloud/Hardware with a background in Strategy, Capacity Planning, Supply Chain Optimization, or technology strategy consulting
• Experience leading enterprise-level Planning processes with frequent executive interaction
• Experience distilling complex data and high ambiguity into actionable insights and recommendations, to quickly separate signal from noise for executive communication and decision-making
• Experience applying business and financial analysis to form and refine hypotheses into actionable recommendations
• Experience identifying and framing complex or ambiguous infrastructure problems, defining opportunity spaces, and developing actionable strategies
• Experience in completing multiple cloud, infrastructure, or hardware optimization projects

Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Direct experience designing and establishing new infrastructure planning processes from the ground up at a hyperscale cloud or infrastructure provider

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