# Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Ads Infra and Ranking

Meta's Ads organization builds the systems that help businesses of every size reach the people most likely to care about what they offer. At our core, we're builders who care about shipping real value. Within Ads, the Infra and Ranking organization owns the technical foundation that makes this work at Meta's scale: the ranking models that decide which ad is right for each moment; the retrieval and serving platforms that evaluate enormous candidate sets in milliseconds; and the underlying data, training, and inference infrastructure. All of this is done while maximizing compute efficiency, ensuring reliability and privacy, and using AI to speed up development.As a senior infrastructure technical leader in Ads Infra and Ranking, you will define the long-term technical strategy for distributed systems across organizations, from data and features through training, retrieval, and serving. You will align organizations on foundational platform changes that improve reliability, performance, and compute efficiency across Ads. Responsibilities Define a multi-year architecture and technical strategy for Ads platforms across organizations, connecting shorter-term projects to a long-term system

- **Id**: 3984438
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-software-engineer-infrastructure-ads-infra-and-ranking>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:22:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T07:06:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3675
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Foundation Models, Messaging Apps

## Company

- **Id**: 20
- **Name**: Meta
- **Domain**: meta.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/meta>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 228
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.89
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 39
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:06:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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