Facebook is to creating 200 full-time jobs in Dublin, which will be filled by the end of the year, the company announced today. The new jobs will take the total number of employees at Facebook’s international headquarters to 1,500.

The extra jobs will be split across a range of business functions, including sales, engineering and online operations. Facebook recently doubled the size of its premises in Silicon Docks to over 250,000 square feet, which the firm said brings the potential to hire up to 2,000 people in total.

As part of this expansion, the company opened the Facebook partner centre, the first of its kind outside the global headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Today’s news follows Facebook’s announcement in January that Clonee in Meath will be the site for its newest data centre – the second one in Europe and first in Ireland.

Gareth Lambe, head of Facebook Ireland, said: “We look forward to welcoming new Facebookers to the company to help them to build meaningful, lasting careers, as well as business clients to the partner centre to give them a look first hand at how Facebook operates, both now and in the future.”

Jobs minister Richard Bruton was also on hand to clothe the jobs announcement with words of praise. He said: “Not only does 200 direct jobs within Facebook mean hundreds of extra jobs in the local economy through supply and services companies, but these investments have huge knock-on impacts for the startup community and for our ability to attract more multinational investment.”

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