Software Development Manager
Menlo Park, CA • Full Time
Meta
Software Engineering
Engineering
IT
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Software Development Manager Responsibilities
- Drive engineering effort, communicate cross-functionality, and be a subject matter expert.
- Perform technical software engineering duties and oversee a team of engineers.
- Utilize data driven decision making and evaluating designs and their complexities.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts.
- Help with recruiting.
- Manage the team that builds and maintains software infrastructure, systems and applications, and grow the team based on need.
- Translate business requirements using complex methods/models to determine appropriate system solutions.
- Evaluate existing infrastructure capacity, performance
- plan for future requirements, prepare proposals.
- Evaluate technology/tools and identify prospective solutions.
- Work within a cross functional team to provide technical expertise in the design and planning of software system solutions.
- Provide impact analysis on infrastructure due to Projects/Change Requests.
- Build solutions with Availability, Backup, Capacity planning, Performance, Redundancy, Reliability, Scalability, Supportability while prudently managing risks and costs.
- Participate to develop and manage on going operational needs of the backend distributed systems.
- Act as sounding board and as a consultant and leader to develop infrastructure solutions for operational simplicity.
- Promote organization process that maximizes organization's productivity.
- Lead and direct to prepare governing principles to guide decision-making pertinent to infrastructure architecture.
- Develop and execute communication plus education plan for infrastructure architecture.
- Maximize the performance, uptime, and supportability of cache infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and three years of work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation
- Requires three years of experience in the following:
- Hands-on technical management building holistic web based software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients
- Coding in one of the following languages: C++, Java, Python, or PHP
- Recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and
- Experience driving roadmap creation and execution
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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.
$282,456/year to $290,180/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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