Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer at Meta, you will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build across our entire family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Reality Labs, Threads). Your technical skills and analytical mindset will be utilized designing and building some of the world's most extensive data sets, helping to craft experiences for billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses worldwide.

In this role, you will collaborate with Business Stakeholders, Program Managers, Product Managers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to support Infra Data Center (IDC) Goals and roadmaps by building the data architecture that informs and drives insight. In this role, you'll experience a direct link between your work, company growth, and user satisfaction. This role is within the Infrastructure Data Centers (IDC) Data Science organization. The Infra Data Center Data Science organization owns the data engineering, business intelligence, advanced analytics and analytics solution engineering for the entire IDC organization.

You will be at the forefront of identifying and solving some of the most interesting data challenges at a scale few companies can match. By joining Meta, you will become part of a industry leading data engineering community dedicated to skill development and career growth in data engineering and beyond.

Data Engineering: You will guide teams by building optimal data artifacts (including datasets and visualizations) to address key questions. You will refine our systems, design logging solutions, and create scalable data models. Ensuring data security and quality, and prioritizing efficiency, you will suggest architecture and development approaches and data management standards to address complex analytical problems.


Communication and influence: You won't simply present data, but tell data-driven stories. You will convince and influence your partners using clear insights and recommendations. You will build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner.Data Engineer Responsibilities

• Manage and execute data warehouse plans for an Infra Data Center Stakeholder group to solve well-scoped problems
• Identify the data needed for a business problem and implement logging required to ensure availability of data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers and data scientists to understand data needs, representing key data insights in a meaningful way
• Build data expertise and leverage data controls to ensure privacy, security, compliance, data quality, and operations for allocated areas of ownership
• Design, build and launch new data models and data visualizations in production, leveraging common development toolkits
• Independently design, build and launch new data extraction, transformation and loading processes in production, mentoring others around efficient queries
• Support existing processes running in production and implement optimized solutions with limited guidance
• Define and manage Service Level Agreements for data sets in allocated areas of ownership

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience where the primary responsibility involves working with data. This could include roles such as data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, or similar positions
• 2+ years of experience with SQL, ETL, data modeling, and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, C#, Scala or others.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D degree in a STEM field

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. 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.
US$114,000/year to US$171,000/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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