Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking (PhD)
Meta

In this role, you will be a member of the Backbone Software team at Meta. As part of this team, you will develop and own mission-critical software systems that control Petabit/s data traveling through, and millions of operations performed in, Meta's mission-critical Backbone network - one of the largest in the world. As a Software Engineer within SDN, you will be pushing the boundary of massive scale via bringing intelligent algorithms and solutions to enable ever-growing Meta's products and innovation.

Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking (PhD) Responsibilities:

• Develop advanced traffic engineering and scheduling algorithms to control and optimize high-scale traffic and operation load for Meta's Backbone network.
• Enhance distributed system performance and observability to ensure effective and dependable network control and operations.
• Create algorithms and software solutions aimed at achieving maximum throughput, minimal congestion, and optimal availability for traffic across load-balanced paths with the lowest latency.
• Develop intelligent scheduling algorithms and software solutions to optimize operational throughput while maintaining network reliability.
• Collaborate with network engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve functional, performance, and stability issues throughout the stack.
• Keep abreast of the latest industry and academic research to integrate innovative solutions.
• Write clean, readable, and maintainable code that prioritizes debuggability and testability from the outset.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Demonstrated experience in algorithm development, performance optimization, and research interests in networking.
• Experience coding in an industry-standard language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python).
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with optimizing traffic and performance in networking.
• Knowledge of ML, linear programming.

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