Software Engineer - iOS (Technical Leadership)
at Meta
Location
Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Compensation
$219k–$301k USD
Type
full time
Posted
7/30/2025
Market range · company + function + seniority
p25 · target · p75 · n=217
Posted $301k · well above market
Posting health
Aging · 65- ·Open 453 days
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Job description
Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect globally. If you're interested in leading a world-class team of engineers and researchers to work on exciting projects that have significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
- Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
- Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
- Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
- Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
- Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
- Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
- 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience Experience developing iOS media infrastructure and platforms
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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