Job Description

Every day we strive to provide the best possible experience to our users that are now numbered in billions, and to make that possible, we have deployed an ultra-high capacity backbone network that spans the globe. As we scale our network further, we are looking for a Performance Engineer to join our Network Backbone Engineering team to help us evaluate the performance of planning and bandwidth-resource reservation systems.

Performance Engineer, Network Planning Responsibilities

* Work closely with the network modeling and network insights team to evaluate planning and bandwidth-resource reservation systems.

* Partnering with services to understand and evaluate service architecture, debug network traffic issues and optimize network performance.

* Produce data visualizations for demand, capacity, and performance which will enable decision making to internal partners.

* Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for quantifying supply, risk, headroom, and utilization, providing insights that enable decision making.

* Build, test, and deploy models/simulations to evaluate hypothesis, understand the key outputs, improve modeling/simulation, and provide statistical analysis.

* Support end users on ad hoc data usage and be a subject matter expert for solution development across the team.

* Leverage the Facebook software and infrastructure to develop efficient analytics.

* Build cross-functional relationships with other Data Scientists, Network Planners, Software Engineers, Network Engineers, and Service Owners to understand their data and modeling needs.

Minimum Qualifications

* BS/BA Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Management Science).

* Experience analyzing and interpreting data, drawing conclusions, defining metrics, recommending actions, and reporting results across various stakeholders.

* Experience with Monte Carlo simulations, operations research, and/or optimization.

* Hands-on experience with large datasets.

* Experience working with optimization frameworks such as Xpress, Gurobi, or CPlex.

* Fundamental knowledge of statistical data analysis, modeling, graph theory and optimization.

* Programming experience with Python or C/C++, and experience with SQL.

* Effective communication, presentation, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

* Graduate work experience in a highly quantitative field.

* Experience building an end-to-end data driven product.

* Experience working with time-series data.

* Knowledge of or experience with computer networks/network infrastructure.

* Experience framing network capacity planning optimization problems.

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 $148,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)