Facebook is seeking a Data Center Capacity Engineer to join the Strategic Planning team to focus on data center performance and capacity modeling initiatives. This person would be required to work cross-functionally with a number of engineering teams to ensure optimal operations and growth of data center capacity and computing resources from both a cost and technology perspective. Tens of billions of user requests; hundreds of Petabytes of data; thousands of Gbps of network flow. Come and be part of the team building one of the largest Data Center fleet in the industry!
Data Center Capacity Engineer Responsibilities:
- Scale one of the largest data center and computing footprints in the world.
- Work with Data Center Engineering, Capacity Engineering, Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to find the optimal way to scale the infrastructure.
- Provide visibility into power, performance and health for all data center locations: Develop capacity insights and KPI's for global portfolio of data centers utilization and how changes to our products and company events impact power, performance and asset utilization.
- Help optimize our capacity usage: Develop models to determine and drive scaling and utilization parameters and optimize capacity footprint.
- Help grow our data center footprint efficiently: Translate current and future software and application needs into requirements for data center location strategies ensuring optimal site-wide performance and cost savings.
- Tackle the state-of-the-art power and capacity performance issues: Analyze hardware roadmap and industry trends, identify bottlenecks and optimize data center performance and inform the strategic roadmap.
- Develop models and tools to monitor data center capacity performance and utilization: Monitoring, reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.
- Solve complex performance challenges: Closely partner with production engineering and software development teams to understand product and service architecture, latency requirements and develop data center capacity solutions to scale and optimize space and power.
- Find the game changers, and bring them on: Work with Engineering Teams to perform power and capacity analysis on cutting-edge data center and hardware designs to drive improvements in capacity and total cost of ownership.
- A lot of other cool work: Identify data center capacity-related issues and improvement areas proactively and work with systems, network, operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.
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- MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related fields
- 3+ years of experience in software and hardware performance engineering, capacity engineering, and Capacity Planning
- Experience in coding & scripting languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python
- Database experience.
- Analytical, budgeting and planning experience.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in MySQL.
- Experience with Statistical tools and modeling
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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$147,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.