Global Infrastructure Engineer

About the Role

The Site Operations team is responsible for the delivery of data center compute and storage at Meta, enabling our family of apps and services to support a growing global community. We are seeking a forward‑thinking individual skilled across multiple disciplines to lead global initiatives on this team. The mission of this role is to identify and tackle the biggest technical and operational challenges and opportunities before Site Ops.

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• Represent Site Operations in leading work to define and architect 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 as well as a broad understanding of Meta’s overall infrastructure
• Address issues that can be ambiguous and global in nature, requiring leadership and collaboration across time zones, teams, and technical domains
• Act as key SME and mentor in the design, operation, and troubleshooting of tools, technologies, and processes utilized within Site Operations
• Understand and assess risks and challenges associated with emerging new hardware, data center and software technologies, and define & implement effective mitigations for these
• Employ a holistic understanding of the full infrastructure stack to lead solutions that appropriately balance physical and logical layer
• 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 and facilitate resolution of issues drawing on 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, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Knowledge of the full stack of infrastructure, with experience building or operating logical infrastructure on top of a complex, distributed physical infrastructure
• Proven communication skills and experience working in a highly distributed environment, across teams/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 the results of analysis and insights to cross‑functional teams and influencing the strategy of these teams
• 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 in providing technical guidance to external vendors and partners. Knowledge and experience with 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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