# Software Engineer - Traffic Efficiency

Meta's Traffic Efficiency team improves the performance, capacity, and reliability of the edge infrastructure connecting people to Meta's products. Edge sites face tight space, power, and hardware constraints, so efficiency directly creates usable capacity and reliability. At Meta's scale, even small efficiency gains can deliver substantial infrastructure savings while protecting product quality as demand grows.We seek an engineering expert to set direction and lead cross-stack performance work spanning high-throughput services, operating systems and kernels, networking and NICs, CPU and memory, and server platforms. The task is to identify high-leverage opportunities, choose the right layer for each solution, and drive safe fleet-wide deployment with measurable impact on latency, throughput, resource efficiency, capacity, reliability, or total cost of ownership. Responsibilities Set technical direction and lead multi-team programs that improve performance, capacity, efficiency, or reliability Diagnose interactions across services, operating systems, network I/O, NICs, CPU and memory, and server platforms using profiling, tracing, telemetry, counters, and controlled experiments Pri

- **Id**: 3870455
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-software-engineer-traffic-efficiency>
- **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**: 2026-11-04T23:19:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T23:38:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3267
- **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**: 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
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T14:13:16Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T01:32:46Z

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