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Meta Network Production Engineer - Backbone in Dublin, Ireland
Summary:
You will be joining the team that is responsible for the end-to-end health (performance and reliability) of Meta's backbone networks. You will build tools and use automation to efficiency scale how we mitigate real-time impact to the network, identify and investigate long-term trends into performance and risks in our backbone, and drive innovative solutions to monitor and improve Meta's current and future backbone network products.Our backbone network continue to rapidly expand globally, due to the increasing network demands that our AGI journey brings. We support both our "Classic Backbone", that transports traffic destined to people using Meta's products, and our "Express Backbone", that handles machine to machine traffic between our Data Centers.Engineers that typically thrive in this role are hybrid software and network engineers who are interested in knowing how systems work, how they fail, and how we can increase their reliability. You have the opportunity to dig into interesting challenges in the networking and software domains, at a scale that offers new challenges on a daily basis.
Required Skills:
Network Production Engineer - Backbone Responsibilities:
Develop and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex networks and systems in the world
Participate in a weekly on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
Perform thorough analysis on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
Manage and maintain a Multi-vendor and Multi-protocol Backbone/Edge networks
Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues
Define, develop, and optimize automated network monitoring systems to mitigate and remediate network events
Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, and drive the project directly and through the influence of other teams
Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, etc.)
5+ years experience in one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS or similar routing protocols - knowledge in typical configurations and performance tuning
5+ years experience understanding and mitigating network hardware and topology failures
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6
Experience operating and designing SDN-based backbone networks
Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment.
Experience with developing distributed systems and operating them at scale
Experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
Experience developing and understanding network device configuration for at least one vendor (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.)
Knowledge in routing and switching - hardware design and knowledge of forwarding and data planes
Industry: Internet