Global Infrastructure Engineer

Global Infrastructure Engineer

Join our Site Operations team at Meta as a Global Infrastructure Engineer. The Site Operations team delivers data center compute and storage services that enable our global community of apps and services. This role focuses on identifying and tackling the biggest technical and operational challenges and opportunities before they become operational issues. The Infrastructure Engineer will personally advance high‑impact initiatives, collaborate across teams, and lead closure through working groups and delegation.

$191,000 / yr - $262,000 / yr

• Represent Site Operations in leading the definition and architecture of new solutions on global initiatives, working with stakeholders across Infra Data Centers & Infrastructure teams.
• Assemble and lead teams to address complex engineering challenges, requiring technical expertise and a broad understanding of Meta’s overall infrastructure.
• Address ambiguous and global issues, requiring leadership and collaboration across time zones, teams, and technical domains.
• Act as a key SME and mentor in the design, operation, and troubleshooting of tools, technologies, and processes used within Site Operations.
• Understand and assess risks and challenges associated with emerging hardware, data‑center, and software technologies and define & implement effective mitigations.
• Employ a holistic understanding of the full infrastructure stack to lead solutions that appropriately balance physical and logical layers.
• Act as a global communication and advisory point of contact for the design, implementation, and delivery of projects that affect our global data‑center and server fleet, facilitating resolution of issues with local expertise and global support partners.
• Leverage data‑driven methodologies to understand a problem at the onset, define a plan, and measure progress throughout a project.
• Provide data‑supplied narratives and ensure a focus on continuous improvement.
• Build and support trusted, cross‑functional connections with teams across the globe and serve as an advocate for the Site Operations team with key stakeholders, influencing policies and procedures to improve global data‑center operations.
• Approximately 20% – 30% travel.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of the full infrastructure stack, with experience building or operating logical infrastructure atop a complex, distributed physical infrastructure.
• Proven communication skills and experience working in a highly distributed environment across teams and department boundaries.
• 10+ years of technical experience in a large‑scale data‑center or IT infrastructure environment, or equivalent experience building platforms and systems for large‑scale compute.
• Experience building globally scalable solutions and translating global strategic initiatives into local executable projects.
• Knowledge of the interdependencies of data‑center functions and technologies including electrical, cooling, structured cabling, security, network, server, and storage systems.
• Experience building, operating, and scaling with Linux or Unix operating systems.
• Experience communicating analysis results and insights to cross‑functional teams and influencing their strategy.
• Experience with data‑center design and expansion.

• Extensive knowledge of storage and AI/ML related services and the hardware that supports them.
• Coding or scripting experience such as Bash, PHP, Python, SQL, or Perl.
• Experience providing technical guidance to external vendors and partners; knowledge of virtualization, containerization, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and incident management.
• Experience with high‑level data‑center design, operations, basic electrical/mechanical infrastructure, and scaling physical infrastructure.

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