Job Description

Facebook is seeking a Data Center Capacity Engineer to join the Strategic Planning & Analytics (SP&A) team to focus on data center performance and capacity initiatives. This person would be required to work cross-functionally with a number of engineering teams to ensure optimal operations and growth of data center capacity and computing resources from both a cost and technology perspective. Tens of billions of user requests, hundreds of peta bytes of data, thousands of giga bps of network flow. Help build one of the largest Internet services in the world!

Data Center Capacity Engineer Responsibilities

* Scale one of the largest data center and computing footprints in the world.

* Work with Data Center Engineering, Capacity Engineering, Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the infrastructure.

* Provide deep visibility into power, performance and health for all data center locations: Develop capacity insights and KPIs for global portfolio of data centers utilization and how changes to our products and company events impact power, performance and asset utilization.

* Help optimize our capacity usage: Run capacity and performance simulations to determine scaling and utilization parameters and optimize capacity footprint.

* Help grow our data center footprint efficiently: Translate current and future software and application needs into requirements for data center location strategies ensuring optimal site-wide performance and cost savings.

* Tackle the state-of-the-art power and capacity performance issues: Analyze hardware roadmap and industry trends, identify bottlenecks and optimize data center performance and inform the strategic roadmap.

* Develop simulation models and tools to monitor data center capacity performance and utilization: Monitoring, reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.

* Solve complex performance challenges: Closely partner with production engineering and software development teams to understand product and service architecture, latency requirements and develop data center capacity solutions to scale and optimize space and power.

* Find the game changers, and bring them on: Work with Engineering Teams to perform power and capacity analysis on cutting-edge data center and hardware designs to drive improvements in capacity and total cost of ownership.

* A lot of other cool work: Identify data center capacity-related issues and improvement areas proactively and work with systems, network, operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.

Minimum Qualifications

* BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field.

* 8+ years of experience in software and hardware performance engineering, power analysis and simulation, or capacity engineering.

* Experience in coding & scripting languages such as C, C++, C , Java, PHP, Python or Perl.

* Database experience.

* Analytical, budgeting and planning experience.

* Experience working with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

* MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field.

* Experience in MySQL.

* Experience with Hadoop.

Locations

About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $178,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)