Internship
– Engineering, Tech & Design
Infrastructure
Strategy Data Engineer Intern
(Menlo Park, CA)
Facebook was built to help people conne
ct and
share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in
changing how people around the world communicate with one another. With over a
billion people using the service and more than fifty offices around the globe,
a career at Facebook offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing
organization.
Facebook is looking to scale to the next billion
users and needs the Infrastructure to support it. The “Infra Strategy” team is
chartered with providing independent analysis to achieve the optimal value for
most Infrastructure costs. The ideal candidate will be passionate about
Facebook, highly analytical, have strong mathematical aptitude and can leverage
tremendous amounts of data to drive cost effective decision making as well as
strategic efforts. In this role you will work cross functionally with key
internal Infrastructure and Finance teams to combine data and business
principles, data collection and quality, trend analysis, root cause of issues,
and drive improvements. Successful candidates for this team have a bias toward action,
enjoy finding patterns amid chaos, making quick decisions, and are up for a
challenge.
users and needs the Infrastructure to support it. The “Infra Strategy” team is
chartered with providing independent analysis to achieve the optimal value for
most Infrastructure costs. The ideal candidate will be passionate about
Facebook, highly analytical, have strong mathematical aptitude and can leverage
tremendous amounts of data to drive cost effective decision making as well as
strategic efforts. In this role you will work cross functionally with key
internal Infrastructure and Finance teams to combine data and business
principles, data collection and quality, trend analysis, root cause of issues,
and drive improvements. Successful candidates for this team have a bias toward action,
enjoy finding patterns amid chaos, making quick decisions, and are up for a
challenge.
Responsibilities
- Accept
the freedom to create and drive impact for Facebook - Leverage
tools like SQL, Hadoop, R, PHP, Python, Oracle, Java, and Excel to drive
efficient analytics and reporting or performing data extraction from
mysql/oracle/hive leveraging an extremely large data set - Focus
on collecting, parsing, managing, analyzing and visualizing large sets of
data to turn information into insights using multiple platforms - Work
with internal technical operations teams to define metrics, automate data
collection, synthesize relevant data, build analytical models and
forecasts - Create
and manage failure and/or trend analysis - Create
and/or assist in the development of tools or data dashboards that drive
efficiency
Requirements
- Pursuing
a BA/BS degree - Strong
in statistics fundamentals, set theory and relational algebra required - Experience
of 4+ years of programming - Proficiency
in SQL is required - Experience
with at least 1 scripting language(C++, JAVA, PHP, PERL, PYTHON etc.)
required - Demonstrated
problem solving ability with experience providing practical business
insights from large, complex data sets required - Understanding
Datawarehousing concepts, ETL, OLAP vs. OLTP, Slowly Changing Dimensions a
big plus - Reporting
/ Dashboarding with any BI tool (Microstrategy, Tableau, Business Objects
etc.) a plus - Proficient
in designing efficient and robust ETL workflows desired - Provide
strong interpersonal skills while acting under diverse roles: liaison,
consultant, leader, peer, owner, customer, etc. - Experience
in Technical Operations or hardware that supports a large scale website
beneficial - Able to
work in an extremely high volume, high energy environment
As part of our dedication to the diversity of
our workforce, Facebook is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without
regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran
status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
our workforce, Facebook is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without
regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran
status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due
to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-ext@fb.com or you may
call us at 1+650-308-7837.
to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-ext@fb.com or you may
call us at 1+650-308-7837.
