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Software Engineer, Databases (Technical Leadership)
Meta
Bellevue, USA
Full-time
Senior · 12+ years experience
Onsite
USD 219000-301000 yearly / year
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Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for Meta's MySQL infrastructure, including the MyRocks storage engine and MyRAFT replication layer
- Architect database system enhancements to support Meta's evolving AI workloads and large-scale data requirements
- Identify and resolve the most complex database-level performance, reliability, and correctness challenges that span storage, replication, query execution, and transaction processing
- Lead the design and implementation of critical database internals — including storage engine optimizations, replication protocols, query planning, and transaction management — ensuring correctness, efficiency, and long-term maintainability
- Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and velocity across database engineering teams
- Develop and operationalize testing frameworks, verification methodologies, and data integrity checks that prevent database bugs and reliability regressions at scale
- Leverage AI tooling and automation to optimize database performance, accelerate development workflows, and identify optimization opportunities
- Partner with product, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams to translate complex database requirements into durable technical designs, influencing roadmaps across organizational boundaries
- Define and track database-level metrics, SLOs, and performance guardrails that connect engineering outcomes to organization-level priorities
- Mentor engineers across the organization on database design principles, query optimization techniques, and storage engine internals
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of experience in database systems engineering, including design and implementation of database internals such as storage engines, replication systems, query optimizers, or transaction processing
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