Our team, Global Partner Engineering & Tech, is looking for impact-focused, entrepreneurial engineers ready to bring their ideas and make a difference. We apply our engineering skills and business savvy to solve challenges at the intersection of business and innovation in many of today’s most exciting industries and products. These include Facebook Watch, Marketplace, Instagram Shopping, Oculus, Portal, Games, Workplace, AI and many more.We are engineers, and we write scalable, high performance code across Facebook’s products to ship new solutions that address partners’ opportunities and challenges. We also design and deliver technical solutions critical to our partners’ success. In doing so, we help partners realize the full value of working with the Facebook family of apps focusing on helping them grow their business with us while reducing the effort and investment to leverage our platforms. As a Partner Engineer, you will get the opportunity to see the business impact of the solutions you build with our partners. You will get to learn and build on different tech stacks and languages. You will use your entrepreneurial passion and the freedom that the role provides to create your own opportunities and choose how you make an impact. In short, it’s like being the engineering lead in a startup.Role TypesWe have a few different role types available in Partner Engineering depending on your interests and skill sets as follows:Partner Engineer: This role includes a combination of partner-facing time to understand their technical and business needs and then code solutions to address those needs. That coding output can be in the form of APIs, product integrations or tools to help partners and Facebook achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.Systems & Tools Engineer: This role is primarily coding on internal systems & tools to help us operate more efficiently in Partnerships and deliver more value to our partners. There is a range of projects including partner management systems and tools, video/news/music content management systems, API/platform management and much more.
- Deeply understand Facebook apps and products (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus, Portal, Workplace, video, games, payments) and their underlying implementation
- Work closely with our strategic partners to integrate with Facebook’s platform products and ensure value creation
- Build and improve technical solutions in collaboration with Facebook product engineering teams
- Write and ship reliable, scalable, and efficient code
- Develop tools and documentation to help scale Facebook’s platform products
- Influence the road map and product development of Facebook products to meet your industry’s business challenges
- Represent Facebook and our products, APIs and tools in partner meetings and industry events including F8
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer building and shipping products or equivalent experience
- B.A/B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience
- Experience with open source languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, Objective-C/C++, Swift, Java, Kotlin or C#
- Knowledge of the Web technology stack (for example HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Experience with software design and architecture
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with REST APIs and developer platforms
- Experience working on multi-person code bases including open source or personal projects
- Experience with open source contributions (especially as part of larger projects)
- Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation
- Client/partner-facing and/or experience communicating to a audience is preferred
- Experience working with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP
- Experience working in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments
- Experience developing with Android/iOS SDK
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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