Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, announced the jobs today in Dublin

Facebook has announced it is to add 1,000 new roles in Ireland this year.

The roles will be across 60 teams here, including engineering, safety, legal, policy, marketing and sales.

The expansion will bring to 5,000 the number of people employed by the company in Ireland at its sites in Dublin, Meath and Cork. 

It follows the company's announcement in November that it has taken a long-term lease out on the Bank Centre campus in Ballsbridge, currently home to AIB. 

The announcement was made by Sheryl Sandberg - the company's chief operating officer - who is in Dublin to attend Gather, a Facebook-run event for 500 small and medium sized businesses from Ireland and Europe. 

Facebook also said today that it is increasing the amount of money it is giving to online safety programmes being run by the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre and SpunOut.ie, with the total amount due to reach €1m. 

In a keynote speech to attendees at the event in Croke Park, Ms Sandberg acknowledged that the social network needs to earn users' trust. 

She said Facebook is now a very different company to the one it was three years ago, or even one year ago. 

Ms Sandberg also outlined measures being taken to address challenges such as cracking down on fake account and fake news, preventing election interference, increasing safety and security for users on the platform and becoming more transparent in its decision making.The Bank Centre campus development will give Facebook capacity for up to 7,000 employees.

All 2,000 employees currently based in the company's Grand Canal Square office will have moved to the new campus by 2022.

Ms Sandberg also met with Minister of State for European Affairs Helen McEntee at the event, and will meet the Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon later.

Information about Current Jobs;

90 Open Jobs live at the moment on Facebook's Career Page: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?q=ireland

Article Source; https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/0121/1024551-new-facebook-jobs/