Sep 11 2017

An Inside Look at Data Engineering at Facebook

By Meta Careers
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We rely on data to help understand and build the social infrastructure that make up our communities on Facebook. Data engineers at Facebook are part of a tightly integrated team of core technical functions that support every product team at Facebook. They help product decisions alongside software engineering, design, product management, data science, research, and others. This work spurs our empathy for the entire Facebook community so we can make more informed decisions and develop better products to bring the world closer together.
We are passionate about building communities and we take user privacy very seriously. Millions of people connect and share on Facebook every day. Our goal is to understand that activity on an aggregate level and then use the insights to make Facebook safer, more meaningful, and more enjoyable for our community of 2 billion people.
For example, understanding data was helpful in making decisions in building Messenger as a standalone app, focusing on community commerce leading to the launch of Marketplace, and creating Facebook Lite for feature phones and within areas of limited network connectivity.

“Why do data engineers join Facebook?”

We caught up with a few team members and here is what they had to say about their experiences at Facebook:
“I believe Facebook is the best place to do analytics in tech. Our teams are deeply integrated with engineering and product and things really change based on our input: From simple things like improving logging to produce data sets and reports quicker to major decisions about team direction or whether we launch a product.”
- Alex Schultz, VP of Growth Marketing, Analytics, and Internationalization
“I really wanted to be in an environment full of brilliant, creative, highly effective people; an environment that would give me space to learn and grow. And that is precisely what I love about Facebook. Opportunities here are endless and people are constantly encouraged to take initiative.” - Enela P., Data Engineer
“I love working on product, data and scaling challenges. Facebook provides unique opportunities to think about innovating on products and scaling systems. I'm really happy to be in a space where I can work on problems of scale alongside doing work that is changing lives of billions of people everyday.” - Rohit G., Data Engineer
“I joined Facebook so that I could experience working with a large amount of data that would be hard to match at any other company. It pushes you to get better and better. It will not only make you a better data engineer, but a better person.” - Shawna J., Data Engineer
“I joined Facebook so I could be myself, grow and learn from the best people in the industry, and have an opportunity to impact the world!” — Rajani A., Data Engineer

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