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Senior Data Engineer, Machine Learning

Meta

218k - 235k USD/year

Office

Menlo Park, CA

Full Time

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.Senior Data Engineer, Machine Learning Responsibilities
  • Design, model, and implement data warehousing activities to deliver the data foundation that drives impact through informed decision making.
  • Design, build and launch collections of sophisticated data models and visualizations that support multiple use cases across different products or domains.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers and data scientists to understand data needs, representing key data insights visually in a meaningful way.
  • Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership.
  • Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve.
  • Determine and implement the security model based on privacy requirements, confirm safeguards are followed, address data quality issues, and evolve governance processes within allocated areas of ownership.
  • Solve challenging data integration problems utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, and sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts.
  • Influence product and cross-functional teams to identify data opportunities to drive impact.
  • Address diverse problems where data analysis requires evaluating identifiable factors.
  • Innovate new ideas, techniques, or processes to address challenges or seize opportunities.
  • Seek clarity on goals and priorities to ensure swift progress, escalating issues as needed to remove obstacles.
  • Identify, prioritize, and achieve clear short, mid, and long-term goals aligned with business objectives, keeping the team focused on delivering results.
  • Help Meta meet legal and regulatory obligations and make decisions that reflect our mission, values, and principles.
  • Play a key role in enhancing machine learning explainability and tracking mechanisms.
  • Strengthen our foundational ML data infrastructure to broaden analytical capabilities.
  • Engage deeply in strategic growth areas for feed recommendations, a crucial driver of Meta's revenue.
  • Possess the ability to comprehend machine learning workflows and manage complex ranking systems that serve billions of users.
  • Collaborate daily with software and ML engineers to understand their workflows and develop analytics tools that enhance system and process insights.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Master's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Science, Applied Sciences, or a related field and 1 year of work experience in the job offered or in an analytics or computer-related occupation
  • Requires 1 year of experience in the following:
  • 1. Designing interconnected components for end-to-end data management, including data collection, storage, integration, and utilization
  • 2. Designing and building scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
  • 3. Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, PHP, and JavaScript
  • 4. Big data technologies like MapReduce and Spark
  • 5. SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • 6. Data modeling, data warehousing, and building data lakes
  • 7. Analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps, and inconsistencies
  • 8. Developing solutions to complex data problems using programming and scripting languages, employing parameterization and inheritance for reuse, and using tools like type systems,
    unit tests, and random testing to ensure program integrity
  • 9. Data privacy and security best practices
For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. About Meta 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.
$218,284/year to $235,400/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.

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Senior Data Engineer, Machine Learning

Office

Menlo Park, CA

Full Time

218k - 235k USD/year

August 20, 2025

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