Location
London

Hours
Full Time - Internship duration as per program requirements

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Production Engineers (PEs) at Meta are specialized software engineers who develop the underlying infrastructure for all of Meta's products and services, forming the backbone of every major engineering effort that keeps our platforms running smoothly and scaling efficiently. PEs work across Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to ensure our services are reliable, performant, and capable of supporting billions of users. This means writing high-quality code, solving complex problems in live production, and tackling challenges that impact over 2 billion people worldwide. Our PEs are embedded in teams across the spectrum, from products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Videos to critical backend services such as Storage, Cache, and Networking. The team brings together diverse levels of experience and backgrounds.

Working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you’ll contribute to code and systems that go into production and are used by millions every day. In Production Engineering at Meta, we navigate uncharted waters daily — solving problems at a scale few others face. You will own back-end services which handle fleet management, front-end services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Meta Ads, infrastructure components that drive Meta’s advances in AI, core services used by every team at Meta, the world’s largest MySQL deployments, networking systems and everything in between. You will write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems live on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world. Partner alongside the best engineers in the industry working on the coolest projects around; the code and systems you work on will be in production and used by billions of people globally.

Experience
- Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related field
- Experience with *nix (Linux, BSDs, Solaris, or another UNIX-like OS) or Windows OS
- Experience coding in at least one programming language
- 1 or more years with new development languages such as Python, Hack/PHP, C++, Java, Rust, or GoLang
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
- Knowledge of internet service architectures such as load balancing, LAMP, and CDN's

About you
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
- Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work on complex systems
- Passionate about building scalable, reliable infrastructure and services

Qualifications
- Enrollment in a relevant degree program (Computer Science or related field)
- Demonstrated coding ability in multiple languages
- Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems is a plus