Facebook Performance and Capacity Engineering Internship Programme

Performance
and Capacity Engineer, Intern

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to join the Capacity Engineering & Analysis team to focus on site-wide
performance and capacity projects. This person would be required to work
cross-functionally with a number of teams to ensure optimal operation and
growth of our computing resources from both a cost and technology perspective.
This position is based at our Menlo Park office.

Responsibilities

• Scale
  the largest web capacity in the world: Work with Product Engineering,
  Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering team to find the optimal
  way to scale the infrastructure. Tens of billions of user requests,
  hundreds of peta bytes of data, thousands of giga bps of network flow.
• Own
  end-to-end product design, launch, and operation: Support architecture
  design, define networking requirement, and help code build from scratch to
  support new product launch
• Tackle
  the state-of-the-art hardware performance issues: Analyze and debug
  difficult server performance issues (latest in industry), identify
  bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user
  experience
• Solve
  hardest software performance issues: Work with software developers closely
  to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce
  resource consumption and shorten request latency
• Plan
  the largest server and datacenter capacity: Own and drive overall Facebook
  capacity planning work for all different products/services and recommend
  DC expansion plan
• Develop
  coolest tools to monitor billions of user requests: Write monitoring,
  reporting, data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests
  and analysis
• Provide
  deepest visibility to what is going on for all products: Run capacity and
  performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters
  for various service tiers
• Own
  company server budget and track it: Present performance and capacity
  roadmap for critical project and cost analyses in presentation and written
  form monthly to executive teams
• Find
  the game changers and bring them on: Work with financial analysts,
  operations and engineering to perform cutting-edge technologies
  investigation and cost analysis
• 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

• Pursuing
  MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations
  Research or other technical field preferred
• Experience
  working in extremely large-scale computing infrastructures preferred
• Strong
  coding and scripting ability in php, python or perl
• Solid
  database experience, MySQL preferred
• Experience
  with hadoop a plus
• Strong
  analytical, budgeting and planning skills
• Excellent
  interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven
  ability to work effectively across multiple teams