Software Engineer, Systems

About Company:

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Meta’s apps and services include Messenger, Instagram, and Whats App. Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to build the next evolution in social technology.

Job Description:

Lensa is advertising on behalf of Meta for a Software Engineer, Systems position in Oklahoma City, OK (Telecommute from anywhere in the U.S. permitted).Responsibilities:
• Research, design, develop, build, and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for large distributed components that run applications.
• Build new features and improve existing products.
• Work on problems of diverse scope and design core, backend software components.
• Handle large scale data storage, synchronization, and coordination of large server cluster, and provide a runtime environment for front end code.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires a Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field and three years of work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.
• Three years of experience in:
• Coding in one of the following industry-standard languages: C, C++, Java, or C#
• Building large-scale infrastructure applications
• Designing and completing medium to large features independently without guidance
• Experience owning a particular component, feature, or system
• Python, PHP, or Haskell
• Relational databases and SQL
• Software development tools:
Code editors (VIM or Emacs), and revision control systems (Subversion, GIT, or Perforce)
• Linux, UNIX, or other
* nix-like OS as evidenced by file manipulation, advanced commands, and shell scripting
• Core web technologies: HTML, CSS, or Java Script
• Build highly-scalable performant solutions
• Data processing, programming languages, databases, networking, operating systems, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction
• Applying 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, AND
• Distributed systems.