Desired Skills and Experience

  • Manage engineers working with the engineering teams on our back-end services like our Hadoop data warehouses, front-end services like Chat and News Feed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between. Some engineers may be ‘embedded’ within these teams
  • Understand technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans, and other issues and create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges
  • Partner with product management, program management, network engineering, site reliability operations, and other related groups
  • Help engineers develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
  • Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and onboarding new employees
  • Balance the need to “keep things running” with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects
  • Assess employee performance frequently, address under-performance, and recognize and promote excellent performance
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • At least 4 years of direct management experience in a technology company OR extensive experience as a technical lead and formal project management or business training
  • Previous experience with hiring and performance management, including working with under-performers
  • Knowledge of UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals
  • Ability to code in at least one language (even if it is not one that Facebook uses)
  • Ability to learn new software languages, frameworks and APIs
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to perform ‘guerrilla capacity planning’ for internet service architectures
  • Knowledge of large-scale Internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, CDN’s), even if you haven’t worked on one
  • Familiarity with common applications such as Apache, memcached, Squid, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP
  • Communications skills
  • Detail oriented