The sourcing and operations engineering team is responsible for ensuring all of our outsource partners can design build manufacture and ship that infrastructure on time so that we deliver a great experience to users around the globe we have some challenges today and that our growth at times is exceeding worldwide capacity but impossible is nothing here and that’s actually the part I love because we do get to manage the impossible the sourcing team has to be involved in supporting the entire process for sourcing a data centre location all of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure all of the commercial electronics all of the connectivity connecting that DC to the planet if you took one Facebook data centre.
and laid it on its side it would be taller than the Empire State Building that’s bigger than four soccer fields we enable the delivery of Facebook products by just getting the compute and storage technology and equipment for the data centres when it’s needed on time basically we get to touch off assets of the business all of these elements working together from one cohesive team build the backbone that runs Facebook when I first got here everything is about disruptive ideas how quickly can we implement those disruptive ideas that was very refreshing we don’t do cookie cutter designs here.
we get to explore new ways of designing products that would not be available to the commercial industry and that to me is extremely exciting we’re not plugged into a role every day is new everybody’s fun we get to work with industry-leading engineers that are designing the products and every day I come into work I learned something new triage collaborate ability to move fast and deliver that’s the fun part the speed of change and innovation and the investment for growth provides tremendous opportunities both on a personal and a professional level the biggest thing that resonates about Facebook server equipments
for me is the people you will not find people that are more open and honest and I think the work I do as well as the people I work with is why I say to me being open is really valuing a diverse culture so as my daughter is coming into the workforce I want to have a positive impact and show her what great female role models that we have here at Facebook the question is not which problem do you want to solve it’s what team do you want to be a part of because there are a handful of companies that are solving very cool big problems but not the way that we are going about solving them here we have so much work to do it’s really mind-boggling our mission is to connect the rest of the world and bring communities together and we can really make an impact on their lives that’s what brought me here when we look at the ramp that we’re trying to accomplish over the next 3-5 years it’s just it’s scary but that’s also the fun part about.
