Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

$154K–$217K

Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026

Experience: 6+ years in software engineering focused on network infrastructure, distributed systems, or network automation; 6+ years programming in C, C++, or Go in production.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Designs and operates software that automates, monitors, and optimizes Meta’s global network infrastructure.

Build distributed services and tools for network configuration, device state, topology, and telemetry.
Improve network observability, staged rollouts, and incident response, including SLOs, dashboards, and runbooks.
Make architecture decisions and improve system reliability and performance in collaboration with network engineers and partners.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
6+ years of software engineering experience focused on network infrastructure, distributed systems, or network automation.
6+ years programming in C, C++, or Go in a production environment.
Experience with large-scale distributed systems or network management platforms and network protocols or concepts such as BGP, OSPF, ECMP, switching, routing, or traffic engineering.

Experience with SDN, network operating systems, network device APIs such as OpenConfig or gNMI, or high-volume telemetry pipelines.
Experience with infrastructure observability, network automation, or on-call rotations for critical network services.

$154,003/year to $217,000/year USD base salary

C, C++, Go, BGP, OSPF, ECMP, OpenConfig, gNMI

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