Our team is looking for fast-moving engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset. As a Facebook Solutions Engineer, you will grow industries by identifying new features, products, and business opportunities and enable partner businesses to realize the full potential of those opportunities. You will write scalable production-grade code across Facebook's platforms in collaboration with other product engineering teams. This role will allow you to execute on solving real-world business challenges through Facebook's platforms and community. Facebook's Solutions Engineering team is comprised of creative problem solvers and strategic software engineers who collaborate with clients to understand their challenges and architect solutions. We are at the cross function of business and engineering helping Facebook's marketing and advertising partners succeed and reach their business goals with Facebook products, by finding technology solutions to meet their needs. We are passionate about working closely with our external clients and partners across many industries travel, retail, e-commerce, gaming, financial services, automotive, entertainment and beyond.
Solutions Engineer Responsibilities
* Build new products and improve existing ones in collaboration with Facebook product engineering teams to meet business needs
* Understand and apply deep knowledge of products, technologies and business to build solutions to solve for problems at scale
* Independently identify stakeholders and align cross functional partners towards completion of project goals
* Independently break down coding projects into tasks and partner with all applicable teams and partners
* Design and build end-to-end systems and launch-plan strategies
* Ship and launch production level code with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans
* Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code
* Build and foster relationships with internal and/or external stakeholders
* share project updates and insights
* influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics
* Serve as a subject matter expert within Solutions Engineering and provide consultation on domain-level projects
* Participate in interviewing and onboarding of new team members
* Willingness to travel 25% of the time
Minimum Qualifications
* 6+ years of experience shipping production quality code
* Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
* B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience contributing to open source projects, shared code repositories, and/or personal projects
* Experience with contributing to the development community (blogs, Stack Overflow, Quora, slack, etc.)
* Experience working in highly collaborative environments
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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.
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Menlo Park, CA
Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.