3 days ago
Base Salary
$195k - $343k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and multi-year architecture for spam and abuse detection, account takeover defense, enforcement platforms, and secure mobile client flows.
- Lead design of complex cross-cutting systems and review other designs for architectural coherence.
- Drive technical strategy with engineering managers and product teams and translate it into executable roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers across experience levels and promote technical excellence, ownership, and operational rigor.
- Partner with engineering, product, data science, operations, policy, and legal teams to integrate account risk and enforcement.
- Improve reliability, latency, and quality for systems supporting registration, login, and messaging.
- Lead technical responses to major spam, abuse, and security incidents.
- Use AI tools to build scalable services while maintaining code correctness, security, and production readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 9 years of software development experience, or a master’s degree with 8+ years, or a PhD with 5+ years.
- Experience serving as a technical lead, domain expert, or owner of complex technical initiatives.
- Experience building systems that detect or mitigate spam, abuse, fraud, account takeover, or other malicious behavior.
- Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed backend systems.
- Strong understanding of adversarial abuse problems and defensive techniques.
- Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams or areas and align engineers, managers, and partners.
- Strong mentorship, communication, problem-solving, and technical tradeoff skills.
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python and familiarity with big data tools such as BigQuery.
- Preferred experience leading trust, integrity, anti-abuse, or account security engineering at a large consumer platform.
- Preferred experience with real-time risk scoring, enforcement systems, machine learning productionization, authentication, identity, session security, mobile client security, device attestation, or end-to-end encryption.
- Preferred track record of setting multi-year technical strategy and delivering it through others.
Benefits
- Default Together policy expects employees to work in an office 4+ days per week.
- Paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive medical coverage.
- Emotional and mental health support programs.
- Compensation packages with long-term success participation and eligibility for RSUs.
- Equal opportunity employment and consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
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.