Network Engineer, Engineering R&D - Meta

Meta's Network and Infrastructure Services (NIS) team is actively looking for a passionate network engineer to help us build out infrastructure which gives people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our team is responsible for network design, deployment, and operations for Meta's global engineering labs. With the importance of rapidly maturing new technologies like the Metaverse and GenAI, we have entered in a new era of unprecedented opportunities to re-think traditional networking and iterate quickly in our environment. This role offers a unique career opportunity to work directly with engineering teams building hardware and software on the path to production.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Network Engineer, Engineering R&D Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally to design, plan, deploy, and manage infrastructure in labs.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand business goals, use cases, and test requirements.
• Architect and deploy solutions to support testing and development in lab and manufacturing environments.
• Provide support and consultation to internal teams who utilize network infrastructure to test and validate new products.
• Proactively contribute to and maintain technical documentation.
• Set technical strategy for the organizational engineering roadmap.
• Interpret security and compliance policy and develop standards and guidelines for lab environments.
• Driving complex operational issues to include communications, root cause identification, and problem resolution.
• Approximately 10% travel should be anticipated to R&D and lab locations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of work experience responsible for designing, deploying and operating large scale networks.
• Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with experience in Wi-Fi, transport, and IP networking hardware.
• Understanding of physical infrastructure design including structured cabling, space, power, and cooling.
• Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and deliver against mission critical deadlines.
• Proven experience working in a global team environment and solving problems.
• Experience working in operations to include managing escalations and executive communications.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working as a tech lead or organizational leader.
• Hands-on experience with development of security and compliance strategy.
• Experience building security programs.
• Networking certifications such as CCNP, JNCIP.
• Project life cycle management from requirement gathering to customer handoff.
• Experience with hardware development.
• Experience with tooling development and software development lifecycle.