Staff Platform Engineer
MetaNew York, NYonsite$183K–$336KGrowthPosted 24d ago · Aug 21, 2026
Meta is hiring a staff platform engineer to work on infrastructure for social platforms at global scale plus the largest open-weight model programme.
What you would own
- Operate the platform that every product team deploys onto.
- Drive down incident rate and cost per unit of served traffic.
- Automate the manual work out of the deployment path.
Skills
TerraformGoLinuxObservabilityAWSPythonPrestoRustNetworkingCost optimisation
What Agraph knows about Meta
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Employees
76K
+2.1% 90d
Open roles
1,480
+17% 30d
Remote share
26%
Activity score
86
0–100
Compensation
Research Scientist pay at Meta up 17% year over year
Median posted compensation for research scientist roles moved from about $270K to $315K across 520 observed postings and reports.
Research Scientist median$315K+17%/ 12 months
Pay moving this fast usually signals a supply shortage rather than a general raise.
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