# Software Engineer - Network Switching

At Meta, we're building and operating one of the world's most dynamic and fast-paced networks, powering our global data centers and supporting cutting-edge technologies like AI, Generative AI, Recommendation engines, and Metaverse. Our network infrastructure teams are responsible for developing, deploying, and operating this complex system, covering the entire network lifecycle from hardware development to operation. We're seeking software engineers to join our teams and help build scalable distributed systems, develop innovative solutions to our challenges, and ship them into production. As part of our network engineering teams, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge switching technology, collaborate with engineers, and contribute to the development of Meta's hyper-scale network infrastructure.Responsibilities Your contributions will affect a massive fleet of switches powering both application and AI workloads Design, develop, validate, and deploy control-plane and dataplane software for network switches (Meta's network switch OS), for Meta's data center front-end, AI backend, and backbone networks Partner with switch ASIC and system vendors on SDK integration, new fe

- **Id**: 3647956
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-software-engineer-network-switching>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T18:49:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T04:12:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3029
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Digital Media, Foundation Models

## 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**: 77
- **Open postings**: 249
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.924
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 37
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **MPLS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T23:21:48Z

## 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**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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