Meta
Software Engineer
$219K–$301K
Menlo Park, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 10+ years in software development for networking or infrastructure systems, or PhD with 4+ years in a relevant technical area; 4+ years designing and shipping production networking dataplane/control-plane systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Architects and delivers Meta’s cloud-native, Kubernetes-first host networking platform for AI infrastructure, including networking primitives and production rollout.
What you'll do
- Lead technical direction and delivery of the host networking platform from design through production rollout.
- Build Kubernetes networking features and implement network virtualization, load balancing/service connectivity, and distributed firewalling and policy enforcement.
- Coordinate across compute, storage, platform, security, and hardware/fabric teams; evaluate and contribute to open-source components.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years in software development for networking or infrastructure systems, or a PhD with 4+ years in a relevant technical area; 4+ years designing and shipping production networking dataplane/control-plane systems.
- Production Kubernetes networking experience and proficiency in C/C++ plus at least one scripting language (Python/Shell Scripting).
- Experience developing and automating test suites.
Nice to have
- Experience with DPU SoC/SmartNIC platforms and collaboration with hardware or ASIC design teams.
- Expertise in high-performance networking techniques or frameworks such as DPDK, eBPF/XDP, AF_XDP, io_uring, kernel bypass, zero-copy I/O, and RDMA/RoCEv2.
Pay
$219,000/year to $301,000/year (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, C/C++, Python, Shell Scripting, DPDK, eBPF/XDP, AF_XDP, RDMA/RoCEv2
AI focus
Builds cloud-native infrastructure optimized for AI development.
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