
Engineering Manager - Strategic Infrastructure Capacity Planning
Required skills
- Capacity Engineering
- Performance Optimization
- Infrastructure Planning
- People Management
- Technical Teams
- Executive Decision Making
- Optimization Models
- Strategic Investment
- AI Technologies
Nice to have
- Quantitative Methods
- Capacity Modeling
- AI Integration
- Ethical AI
- Strategic Planning
- Budgeting
Role summary
Meta is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Capacity Engineering team to lead and grow a team focused on site-wide performance and capacity optimization. This strategic role involves creating and optimizing infrastructure capacity plans, balancing service, infrastructure, financial, and business constraints, and directly influencing billions in investment. The position requires building software and mathematical optimization models, collaborating with executive teams on capacity scenarios, and working across diverse engineering and business functions to ensure optimal long-range investment decisions for Meta's products and infrastructure, including AI and non-AI technologies. The role offers the opportunity to impact millions of servers and Gigawatts of data center capacity.
Responsibilities
- Capacity planning for all of Meta: all software products / services. Develop and analyze business and technical data and what-if scenarios to drive the highest levels of executive decision making around infrastructure / product investments and strategy, up to the CxO level
- Build and maintain high performing team: Hire and retain high-performing engineers. Own career development and health of team to ensure continued growth in capability over time
- Assess team performance on an ongoing basis: address under-performance, recognize and promote performance
- Maximize the conditions for the team's success: ensure clarity in team vision, priorities, roadmap and key business context. Develop, maintain, and if needed, fix relationships with cross functional partners across technical and business functions
- Effectively navigate complex tradeoffs and relationships to balance solving for team, cross-functional partner / stakeholders, and Meta company priorities
- Connect the dots: Identify capacity-related issues at all layers of the stack and proactively work across technical and business teams to define and implement solutions
- Drive technical discussions: influence technical design and process in partnership with team, review key team outputs. Take on some technical IC work and have strategic influence technically
- Develop and maintain effective partnerships across technical and business teams including software service owners, Production Engineering, Server Hardware Engineering, Finance, Server Supply Chain, Network Engineering, Data Center, Operations, and Planning teams to find the most optimal ways to scale our infrastructure and place our services
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, or other technical field, or relevant practical experience
- 8+ years of engineering work experience, including 3+ years of hands-on engineering people-management
- Demonstrated experience with recruiting, developing, and leading technical teams
- Demonstrated success in managing challenging relationships and competing priorities with executive level partners or customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying quantitative and analytical methods to infrastructure planning, capacity modeling, or similar problem domains
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Experience with strategic planning, budgeting and finance
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Experience and demonstrated success with distributed systems and infrastructure planning at scale
$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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