Software Engineer, Data at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Data team. The ideal candidate will dream about distributed systems for the parallel processing of massive quantities of data, be familiar with Hadoop/Pig/HBase and MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable, and frequently think to themselves, "Yeah, that works for 500 MB of data; what about 500 TB?" This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. This position will report to the Senior Manager of Data.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop reusable tools for the management and manipulation of hundreds of terabytes of data
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of data collection, storage, and retrieval processes
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Work closely with data analysts to construct creative solutions for their analysis tasks
• Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level
• Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically

Requirements:

• Extensive experience working with large data stores
• Deep understanding of storage appliance and storage software internals
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
• Experience developing with Python, Ruby, or PHP
• Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems