Production Engineer

Meta; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Dublin is seeking a Production Engineer to develop and maintain infrastructure for various services. The role involves problem-solving at scale, working with high-quality code in collaboration with skilled engineers. Candidates should have an engineering degree or equivalent experience and be skilled in higher-level programming languages. This position offers the opportunity to tackle significant engineering challenges in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, Rust, PHP, C++).
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications.

Responsibilities

• Own back-end services and infrastructure components.
• Write and review code, develop documentation, and debug complex systems.
• Share an on-call rotation with your engineering team.

Skills

Coding in higher-level languages

Debugging complex systems

Configuration and maintenance of applications

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Web servers

Load balancers

Relational databases

Storage systems

Messaging systems

Job description

Overview

Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently.

PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing high-quality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide.

Our PEs are embedded in teams across the spectrum — from products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Videos to critical backend services such as Storage, Cache, and Networking. The team brings together diverse levels of experience and backgrounds. Working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you’ll contribute to code and systems that go into production and are used by millions every day. In Production Engineering at Meta, we navigate uncharted waters daily — solving problems at a scale few others face.

Responsibilities

1. Own back-end services like our container fleet management systems, front-end services like Chat and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between
2. Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world
3. Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation
4. Partnered alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by millions of users all around the world

Minimum Qualifications

1. Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
2. Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g. Python, Rust, PHP, C++)
3. Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
4. Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs

Preferred Qualifications

1. BS or MS in Computer Science

Industry: Internet