# Software Engineer, Systems

Meta is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize the low-level infrastructure and platform software that powers Meta's products at massive scale. In this role, you will work on systems-level challenges spanning operating systems, runtime environments, networking stacks, storage infrastructure, or compute platform software. You will own the technical design and execution of complex systems components, drive engineering excellence across reliability, performance, and security, and partner closely with infrastructure, hardware, and product engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities that enable Meta's services to operate efficiently and reliably at global scale.Responsibilities Design and implement systems-level software components including kernel interfaces, runtime systems, networking layers, storage subsystems, or platform services that operate at scale Own the technical architecture of systems projects from requirements definition through production deployment, including trade-off analysis, design documentation, and stakeholder alignment Profile and optimize critical code paths using instrumentation, tracing, and performance analysis tools to

- **Id**: 4191324
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-software-engineer-systems-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:27:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:23:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4376
- **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**: 80
- **Open postings**: 229
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.799
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **eBPF** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T19:23:54Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:07:16Z

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