We are looking for a Production Engineer to join our team. As a Production Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, designing, creating, modifying, and/or testing software services to ensure optimal performance and capacity for growth. You will own back-end data warehouse services, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, and infrastructure components to ensure services run without incident. You will write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the problems in real time in highly complex software systems. You will serve as an escalation contact for service incidents.
What you'll do
- Develop, design, create, modify, and/or test software services to ensure optimal performance and capacity for growth.
- Own back-end data warehouse services, front-end services like Messenger and Newsfeed, and infrastructure components to ensure services run without incident.
- Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the problems in real time in highly complex software systems.
- Serve as an escalation contact for service incidents.
What you need
- A Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences, or a related field.
- Completion of at least one university-level course, research project, thesis, or internship involving UNIX or Linux operating system fundamentals, TCP/IP network fundamentals, coding in at least one of the following higher-level programming languages: PHP, Python, C++, or Java, software frameworks and APIs, performing 'guerilla capacity planning' for internet service architectures, internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP, or CDN’s), configuring and maintaining applications using at least one of the following: web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, or messaging systems, relational Databases including MySQL, network protocols including at least one of the following: NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP, maintaining web-based applications using at least one of the following: Apache, Memecached, or Squid, storage Systems including NFS, network Management tools like DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, or SNMP, diagnosing and troubleshooting issues ranging from low-level hardware issues to large scale failures within datacenter clusters, experience utilizing high performance query engines (Presto or Spark) for big data.
