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Software Engineer, Databases (Technical Leadership)

Meta - Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA

Posted Jun 4, 2026

Benefits

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Salary
$219K-$301K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
401(k) match
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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

123% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

Company stage
Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Equity
Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer, Databases (Technical Leadership) Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA Meta is seeking a distinguished Software Engineer specializing in database internals to drive the technical direction of our MySQL infrastructure that powers Meta's family of products and platforms. In this role, you will architect and evolve critical database systems within our MySQL team - including our custom storage layer (MyRocks) and replication layer (MyRAFT) - that underpin billions of user interactions daily. You will identify and solve the hardest database-level challenges across the organization, define multi-year technical strategy to adapt our relational database systems to support Meta's AI needs, and serve as a force multiplier for engineering teams through deep database expertise, AI-native workflows, and cross-functional leadership. Responsibilities: - Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for Meta's MySQL infrastructure, including the MyRocks storage engine and MyRAFT replication layer - Architect database system enhancements to support Meta's evolving AI workloads and large-scale data requirements - Identify and resolve the most complex database-level performance, reliability, and correctness challenges that span storage, replication, query execution, and transaction processing - Lead the design and implementation of critical database internals - including storage engine optimizations, replication protocols, query planning, and transaction management - ensuring correctness, efficiency, and long-term maintainability - Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and velocity across database engineering teams - Develop and operationalize testing frameworks, verification methodologies, and data integrity checks that prevent database bugs and reliability regressions at scale - Leverage AI

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