Software Engineer; Technical Leadership

Position: Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)
At Meta, we're not just building products — we're shaping the future of digital privacy. We're committed to embedding privacy into the core of our products, and to redefining how privacy is handled in the digital world.

This role in Privacy owns the interface between Meta's engineering organizations and the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) functions that govern them. You will give engineering, product, legal and policy partners the domain judgment they need to make confident decisions under regulatory constraint. You will set technical direction across the organization for how privacy obligations are met, and build the centralized standards, frameworks and tooling that let the business execute at pace while meeting its obligations.

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for large-scale product systems, ensuring designs are reliable, extensible, and capable of evolving with business needs

Identify and solve the most complex, cross-cutting engineering problems across multiple systems and abstraction layers, including issues that span organizational boundaries

Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and delivery velocity across engineering organizations

Lead cross-functional execution of org-wide technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving outcomes against defined milestones and metrics

Develop and operationalize engineering excellence programs including reliability standards, performance guardrails, and quality frameworks adopted across teams

Deeply understand privacy, security, and integrity vulnerabilities relevant to product systems and build robust technical safeguards in partnership with compliance and policy teams

Mentor engineers across the organization by providing candid feedback, customized coaching, and technical guidance on the most challenging system and feature design problems

Communicate complex technical strategies and trade-offs clearly to audiences ranging from individual contributors to executive leadership, producing artifacts used as long-term references

Identify systemic issues and recurring failure patterns across the organization, developing in variants and architectural improvements that prevent entire classes of problems

Recruit and develop engineers with skills critical to the team's success, role-modeling technical and cultural standards that strengthen the broader engineering community

Minimum Qualifications:

12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale software systems serving high-traffic, production environments
12+ years of programming experience with demonstrated ability to solve complex, cross-system technical problems through direct implementation

Experience leading multi-year technical roadmaps and cross-organizational engineering initiatives from vision through execution

Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and functions through written proposals, architectural reviews, and stakeholder alignment

Experience mentoring engineers across an organization and driving engineering culture improvements through programs, standards, and direct coaching

Preferred Qualifications:

Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations, industry standards work)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ability to integrate…