Software Engineering Director, AI for Incident Response

Meta is seeking a Software Engineering Director to lead the organization building the future of incident response. As agents increasingly build and operate infrastructure, Meta needs reliability systems that can reason and act at machine speed. This leader will drive Meta's AI-powered incident response agent, Meta’s AI agent for incident response, toward a human-on-the-loop model: the agent autonomously gathers context, investigates incidents, identifies root causes, creates a safe mitigation plan, and executes the appropriate action, while humans set boundaries, supervise consequential actions, and intervene when judgment is required.
This role combines frontier agent capabilities with one of the world’s largest and most complex production environments. You will define the technical, product, and organizational strategy, lead an engineering organization with real production systems, and partner across infrastructure and product groups to make incident response faster, safer, and dramatically less labor-intensive. Few roles offer the opportunity to define both the technology and operating model for autonomous incident mitigation at this scale.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the engineering strategy and roadmap for AI-powered incident response, progressing from investigation and diagnosis to safe, end-to-end mitigation and continuous learning
Lead the architecture and delivery of an agent that reasons across telemetry, code, configurations, deployments, service dependencies, and incident history to identify root causes and take appropriate action
Establish a human-on-the-loop operating model with progressive autonomy, explicit policy and permission boundaries, independent validation, auditability, rollback, and clear escalation paths
Build Opsmate as an extensible platform that combines shared, out-of-the-box capabilities with domain-specific skills and agents contributed by product groups and individual on-call engineers
Establish trusted evaluation and measurement systems that connect agent quality to customer and reliability outcomes, including investigation accuracy, adoption, time to mitigation, and reduced operational effort
Partner deeply with product groups, infrastructure teams, product management, and data science to understand what success means for their services and build toward shared outcomes
Ensure the platform itself meets a high bar for reliability, latency, scale, security, privacy, and cost in Meta’s production environment
Build and grow an engineering organization that consistently delivers measurable results by attracting, developing, and retaining engineers and engineering managers across distributed systems, reliability, and applied AI
Create a culture of technical depth, rapid learning, operational excellence, and accountability for realized customer impact
Contribute to company-wide engineering and AI initiatives, including recruiting, technical standards, and responsible AI practices

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in technical leadership roles
7+ years of engineering management experience, including leading multiple teams or managers and delivering products or systems with measurable impact
Experience defining and executing engineering strategy for large-scale distributed systems, reliability platforms, developer infrastructure, or production AI systems
Experience building and operating systems that support critical, always-on production workloads
Track record of building broadly adopted platforms and driving outcomes across organizational boundaries
Experience evaluating complex automated systems and establishing safeguards for trustworthy production operation
Experience building engineering teams through hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers and managers at multiple levels
Experience partnering cross-functionally with product, data science, and infrastructure organizations Experience with incident management, SRE, observability, oncall operations, or automated remediation at significant scale
Experience designing safe execution systems, including identity, authorization, sandboxing, validation, rollback, and auditability
Experience building extensible platforms that allow domain teams to contribute specialized capabilities while preserving a coherent user experience and control plane
Track record of taking a technically ambitious product from early adoption to trusted, broad production use
Experience managing other engineering managers and building a deep technical and management bench across multiple levels
Experience operating LLM-based or tool-using agents in production, including evaluation, orchestration, and progressive autonomy