Production Engineering Manager jobs in Seattle, WA

Production Engineering is a hybrid software/systems group that ensures Facebook's services and products run smoothly and have the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with Facebook's product and infrastructure teams, sometimes embedded in those teams, collaborating in building and scaling technology solutions. Managing a Production Engineering team requires a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies, a focus on growing and developing the skills and talents of your team, and a relentless drive toward high-value projects and ruthless prioritization. Storage is a core piece of infrastructure that stores and serves all the critical media for FB apps, Ads, AI/ML, and thousands of other use cases. We are looking for an org leader to support the teams and services that compose the Meta Blob Storage stack. Key initiatives include enabling new and emerging use cases such as AI/GenAI, serve and scale existing customer workloads such as Video, Instagram, Whatsapp, Ads, and many others reliably and efficiently. Also shape and evolve the tech stack to meet business needs.

Manager, Production Engineering (Storage) Responsibilities:

• Support and lead engineers working on broad set of Meta Blob Storage services, at different layers of the stack, on challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance and efficiency of systems
• Understand and contribute to technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges
• Drive technical architecture discussions, even on subjects you haven't had direct experience working with
• Develop lasting partnerships with product management, program management, network engineering, software engineering and other related groups to build and improve our ever-growing large-scale distributed infrastructure and product environment
• Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
• Help build and enrich an inclusive work environment comprised of people from diverse backgrounds
• Assess employee performance on an ongoing basis, address under-performance, and recognize and promote performance
• Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team including interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees
• Balance the need to “keep things running” with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6 years of direct management experience in a technology role
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience with systems, networking, and troubleshooting
• Experience drafting and reviewing code
• Experience with building teams and/or organizations, including hiring and managing performance
• Experience with developing managers and organizational strategy
• Communication and cross-collaboration experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed Storage systems

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.