Software Engineering Manager - Oculus Studios Core Engineering

Software Engineering Manager - Oculus Studios Core Engineering Responsibilities:

• Support the engineers who drive common client-facing solutions across Oculus Studios: i.e. Game Hosting & Matchmaking, Voice Chat, In-Game Notifications, Persistent Player & Game Data, Reporting, Moderation, Logging & Analytics, Common Tooling, etc.
• Provide appropriate & timely feedback to help engineers improve and grow in their careers.
• Help engineers deal with personal concerns that may affect their normal duties.
• Assist in and mediate any disputes or disagreements both inside and outside of Oculus Studios Central Technology.
• Collaborate across Oculus Studios management and leadership to ensure alignment on long-term objectives: i.e. Oculus Studios Central Tech, Studio Technical Directors, Producers, etc.
• Help define the roadmap and establish Meta's infrastructure and New Technology Support approach for game studios - working across multi-year efforts.
• Find common needs by working across the first party game studios collecting requirements and proposing solutions to gain buy-in. Build shipping features as part of a 1st Party product and launch to consumers. Learn from those launches and bring back institutional knowledge to apply to the next 1st Party engagement.
• Build custom solutions that align with the Metaverse (e.g. Avatars, Common Identity, Integrity) that are delivered to consumers by launching games that use those features.
• Work as a full-stack / generalist developer and gain familiarity in multiple coding languages as needed: e.g. CPP, C#, Python, Hack, JavaScript, React.
• Be or become familiar with multiple game engines: i.e. Unity, Unreal, proprietary engines.
• Be or become familiar with multiple 3rd Party Game technologies (i.e. AWS GameLift, Unity Vivox).
• Gain familiarity of alternate hosting environments (i.e. cloud/corporate/lab) and help determine where and how they should be used.
• Help onboard new game studios engineers to Meta infra and internal tools, while bringing empathy for game development back to core Meta teams.
• Partner with other teams within Meta to figure out best approaches to migrate game studio services while bringing the Meta focuses of reliability, scalability, security to the game studio space.
• Support game studios during break/fix scenarios and be part of the escalation path.
• Assist game studios in building, scaling, and optimizing new features for their existing/future titles.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of management experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing backend services for games and / or enterprise (large scale distributed environments)
• Broad knowledge of games and game development and / or enterprise scale infrastructure
• Experience learning new approaches, coding languages, and Meta specific solutions
• Experienced with C/C++ or C#
• Experienced with Python or PowerShell
• Experienced collaborating with team members across multiple disciplines to bring products to life

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of management experience
• 10+ years of experience developing backend services for games
• Shipped AAA titles or Large enterprise solutions
• Experience working in major game engines (i.e. Unreal, Unity)
• Experience as a Full-Stack developer in a large scale distributed environment
• Experience with backend security, privacy, scalability, and persistence storage design paradigms
• Experience in building user facing tools using languages such as Hack,Javascript, React, etc
• Experience building supportable solutions that include proactive alerting, monitoring, and product metrics
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience working with distributed computing platforms
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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