Facebook calls applications for is seeking a Performance and Capacity Engineer to undertake an Internship in the United Kingdom. Moreover, this is a 12 week summer internship based in London, starting June 2021. The intern will join the Capacity Engineering & Analysis team to focus on future performance and capacity scaling problems. This person would be required to cross-functionally work with a number of teams to ensure efficient operation and growth of the computing resources from both a cost and technology perspective.

Responsibilities

Performance and Capacity Engineer undertaking this Facebook Internship in the United Kingdom will

• Solve the hardest software performance issues: develop cutting edge software and work closely with other software developers to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption, and shorten request latency.
• Tackle the state-of-the-art hardware performance issues and develop industry leading solutions to analyze and debug difficult server performance issues, identify bottlenecks, and optimize product/service performance.
• Similarly, develop the coolest tools to monitor billions of user requests: Write monitoring, reporting, and data aggregation tools to do performance and capacity-related load test to track, report, and analyze regressions.
• Explore and develop novel solutions to scale the largest web capacity in the world: Work with Services, Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to scale the data center infrastructure including tens of billions of user requests, hundreds of petabytes of data, and thousands of Gb/s of network flow.
• Also, own end-to-end product design, launch, and operation; Support architecture design, define networking requirements and help build systems from scratch to support new product launches.
• Provide the deepest visibility to Facebook products and services; Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.
• Furthermore, a lot of other cool work: Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work with Systems, Network, Application Operations, and Engineering teams to discover resolutions.

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelors’s, Masters’s, Ph.D. (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical fields.
• Experience in coding and scripting languages such as C, C++ or Python.
• Interpersonal and communication skills as well as experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in large-scale computing infrastructures preferred.
• In addition to that, experience working cross-functionally with a number of teams.

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