Software Engineer (Leadership) - Infrastructure

Meta

$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years programming experience in relevant languages or 8+ years with a PhD
  • Mentorship and influence experience with executive stakeholders
  • Ability to leverage data for technical problem-solving
  • Proven track record in driving large cross-functional engineering projects
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills
  • Experience in planning multi-year technical roadmaps

Responsibilities

  • Drive team goals and technical direction toward organizational efficiency
  • Effectively communicate complex features and systems
  • Evaluate industry trends for technology assessment and development
  • Collaborate with leaders to enhance team performance
  • Identify new opportunities and influence prioritization efforts
  • Lead the technical vision for cross-company initiatives
  • Create and manage an effective feature roadmap
  • Resolve performance issues and reduce technical debt

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional opportunities
  • Opportunity to lead transformative projects
  • Access to ongoing professional development
  • Focus on ethical AI practices and emerging technologies
  • Mentorship and influence opportunities with executives
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Minimum Qualifications
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
• 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
• 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

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