2 days ago
Base Salary
$284k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Snap’s Ads Marketplace across bidding, pacing, auctions, inventory, traffic optimization, and ad reranking.
- Design and scale bidding, budget allocation, pacing, auction, pricing, inventory, and traffic optimization algorithms for real-time marketplace decisions.
- Develop ad reranking and slate optimization approaches that balance relevance, diversity, repetition, monetization, and user experience.
- Establish objectives, evaluation methods, and experimentation standards that measure incremental marketplace impact and account for feedback loops and interference.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from architecture through production delivery, including prototyping, critical implementation, and production problem solving.
- Raise standards for reliability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency while building shared technical foundations.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and influence engineering, product, data science, and ML teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of post-bachelor’s software development experience, or 10 years of post-graduate experience with a master’s degree, or 7 years of post-graduate experience with a PhD.
- At least 3 years of technical leadership or domain-expert experience supporting a technical organization.
- Experience setting technical direction and leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams from architecture through production delivery and measurable impact.
- Experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more ads marketplace optimization areas and strong foundations in algorithms, optimization, statistics, and distributed systems.
- Strong programming, software design, debugging, performance analysis, testing, and highly available systems experience.
- Preferred experience delivering improvements in advertiser performance, marketplace efficiency, or revenue through ads bidding, pacing, auctions, or inventory optimization.
- Preferred experience applying machine learning, constrained optimization, control theory, or online learning to budget allocation and real-time marketplace decisions.
- Preferred experience with auction theory, mechanism design, pricing, production advertising systems, ad reranking, slate optimization, ad load, placement, frequency optimization, and causal evaluation.
Benefits
- Default Together policy expects employees to work in an office 4 or more days per week.
- Benefits include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages with long-term-success participation through equity.
- The position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.
- Snap is an equal opportunity employer and provides disability and special-needs accommodations.
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About Snap
Snap Inc. builds Snapchat, a visual messaging app, and supports augmented reality through Lens Studio and Spectacles, plus related services like Bitmoji. The company monetizes primarily via advertising and sponsored AR experiences for consumers, creators, and brands. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, it is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker SNAP.