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Capacity Engineer - Capacity Planning Optimization; Technical Leadership

Job in Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98009, USA
Listing for: Meta
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-18
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 219000 - 301000 USD Yearly USD 219000.00 301000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Performance & Capacity Engineer - Capacity Planning Optimization(Technical Leadership)

Summary

Meta is seeking a Performance & Capacity Engineer to join the Capacity Planning Optimization Engineering team to lead software systems and process design. You will build and optimize infrastructure capacity planning covering all of Meta, in one of our largest transformations to date of how we plan and manage infrastructure capacity. This is a hands on leadership role, building some of the most complex parts of the system yourself while leading other engineers and non technical contributors.

You will be in one of the most cross functional roles at the company, with the opportunity to work with a variety of engineering and business teams at the intersection of all Meta products and services (Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, etc), all physical infrastructure (Servers, Data Centers, Network), and product business goals (AI, Metaverse, etc). You will be uniquely positioned to optimize these capacity plans at the most strategic levels with company level impact, with your output used at the CxO level for the most important decisions at the company, as well as providing execution guidance for infrastructure and product teams.

To do this, you will partner across technical and business orgs to design the right solutions and lead engineers to build the most cutting edge technical and process solutions to transform Meta's capacity planning process to be software driven, highly flexible, agile, and ROI Driven. You will connect business strategy with software-driven modeling of detailed service, platform, and infrastructure considerations for executable plans.

Help build one of the largest infrastructures and most used internet services in the world! This position is full-time.

Required Skills

Performance & Capacity Engineer - Capacity Planning Optimization (Technical Leadership) 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
  • Partner across the engineering technical landscape to optimize at the intersection of hardware, infrastructure, and software. Work closely with software service owners, Production Engineering, Server Hardware Engineering, Server Supply Chain, Network Engineering, Data Center Design, Operations, and Planning teams to find the most optimal ways to scale our infrastructure and place our services
  • Design and help build software systems to build scalable, reliable planning systems to connect business strategy with detailed technical execution including regional and temporal bin-packing, optimal service placement, traffic shifts and service migrations, efficient hardware refresh, etc
  • Effectively lead large engineering efforts while implementing the most complex parts of the system and process design yourself
  • Partner with Finance and business teams to balance cost efficiency with technical and product considerations
  • Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, build software driven models and make recommendations to drive change and optimization at the most strategic levels
  • Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of experience in Performance, Capacity, or software engineering
  • Proficient in Python, C++, or other coding languages and designing large scale software systems
  • Demonstrated success leading large engineering projects and initiatives. Defining goals, managing ambiguity, inspiring and leading other engineers and non-technical contributors
  • Experience with large-scale technical infrastructure and distributed systems
  • Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience and interest in building "Zero to One" - building systems and process from scratch with ambiguous requirements and goals
  • Experience with technical infrastructure planning or capacity planning
  • Experience with mathematical optimization and solvers
  • Public Compensation

    $219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

    Industry

    Internet

    Equal Opportunity

    Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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