Software Engineer, Product - Ads Products
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Job overview
Meta’s Ads Products team builds advertiser-facing campaign and optimization products, business workflows, measurement systems, payments, and integrity capabilities. The Software Engineer, Product will lead complex engineering projects to help advertisers plan, create, and manage campaigns, building product experiences and supporting services with cross-functional partners to improve workflows and deliver measurable value.
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Summary:
Meta Ads organization builds the systems that help businesses of every size reach the people most likely to care about what they offer. At our core, we're builders who care about shipping real value. We own the advertiser-facing side of that work, end to end: the campaign and optimization products that drive advertiser results; the business experiences where advertisers plan, create, and manage their work, from a first boosted post to a global agency's workflow; the signals, attribution, and measurement that prove what their advertising delivered; and the payments and financial systems the money moves through, along with the integrity work that keeps them trusted. AI is changing all of it - what we build for advertisers and how we build it - and ours is the org where advertiser value is won or lost.As a Software Engineer, Product in Ads Products, you will lead complex engineering projects that help advertisers plan, create, and manage their campaigns. You will build clear, reliable product experiences and supporting services, working with product, design, data science, and engineering partners to turn advertiser needs into software that improves workflows and delivers measurable value.
Required Skills:
Software Engineer, Product - Ads Products Responsibilities:
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Design and deliver advertiser-facing features and workflows for campaign planning, creation, or management
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Translate advertiser needs into product interfaces, supporting services, and technical designs that make complex advertising tasks easier to complete.
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Lead complex product engineering projects across application and service boundaries, aligning partners on scope, trade-offs, and delivery.
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Use product instrumentation, experiments, and advertiser feedback to evaluate usability, reliability, and business outcomes.
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Build maintainable and testable software, improving quality through code review, rollout controls, and production monitoring.
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Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering teams to identify opportunities and iterate on shipped capabilities.
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Mentor engineers and help new team members ramp up on the product's codebases, workflows, and engineering practices through practical guidance and feedback.
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
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Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects
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8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 4+ years experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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6+ years relevant experience building large-scale applications or similar experience
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Experience building advertiser-facing, business-facing, or analogous products with complex creation and management workflows
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Experience partnering with product, design, and data science teams to translate user needs into features and evaluate product outcomes
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Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Swift, or Kotlin, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
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Experience improving product quality through code review, testing, controlled rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into product engineering workflows and drive measurable efficiency or quality improvements
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Experience applying responsible AI practices, including risk assessment and quality and accuracy reviews, when developing or using AI-assisted product capabilities
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, including prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and evaluation of emerging technologies for product engineering use
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Public Compensation:
$183,997/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 41,748 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$184–257K/yr
- California median$165–249K/yr7,714 salary ranges
- US median$135–219K/yr33,246 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $220K, is 8% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,625 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,748 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,144 postings).
- Education
- 13,035 of the 41,748 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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