Job Description

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

The Facebook Reality Labs AR/VR team at Facebook is helping more people around the world come together and connect through world-class Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to AR/VR research, machine perception, graphics, operating systems, social interaction, and more, we are committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation. AR and VR’s potential to change the world is immense. In creating a new compute platform Operating System, we are currently seeking a Software Engineering Manager to manage a team of engineers focused on the OS’ application model and shell services - balancing our privacy and power goals with enabling cutting edge experience across our devices. The ideal candidate has strong design and build skills, a passion for systems software, hands-on experience delivering large scale applications or application platforms. You are the kind of leader who has expertise building and supporting high-performance teams that create highly reliable, robust, and performant systems software. You have hands-on experience leading teams bringing up new, widely used programming platforms, runtimes and languages. You have a passion for shipping software that enables applications developers to succeed on our platform and across devices.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineers and help them develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional hardware and software engineering teams.
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.
• Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
• Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees.
• Build and lead teams designing and delivering our Application Structure approaches with an eye towards end to end functionality.
  

Minimum Qualification

• 3+ years of work experience architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or services.
• 3+ years experience managing and growing software engineers.
• Experience delivering SDKs and supporting application developers.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience delivering applications or system frameworks.
• Experience in Windows, Linux, MAC and/or Android.
  

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.