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Principal Software Engineer, Systems at Meta

Compensation

$271,000 – $347,000/yr

Setup
Remote
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Meta is hiring a senior Software Engineer to build production AI agents that autonomously investigate and mitigate infrastructure incidents. The role combines large-scale distributed systems, incident response, applied AI, and hands-on engineering to design, prototype, evaluate, and ship systems that learn from production outcomes. Responsibilities include defining technical architecture, developing agent reasoning and tool-use capabilities, applying machine-learning techniques, establishing safety and auditability guardrails, and partnering with infrastructure, AI, product, and reliability teams. The role requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience and at least 12 years of software engineering experience, including work on large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems.

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