1 day ago
Base Salary
$284k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Ads Marketplace across bidding, pacing, auctions, inventory, traffic optimization, and ad reranking.
- Design and scale bidding, budget allocation, and pacing algorithms for efficient advertiser spend and predictable delivery.
- Advance auction mechanisms, pricing, and allocation algorithms to improve advertiser value and marketplace efficiency.
- Lead inventory and traffic optimization across Snapchat surfaces while balancing monetization and long-term user engagement.
- Develop ad reranking and slate optimization approaches considering relevance, diversity, repetition, and user experience.
- Define objectives, evaluation methods, and experimentation standards that measure marketplace impact and account for feedback loops and interference.
- Lead cross-team engineering initiatives from architecture through production delivery, resolve trade-offs and dependencies, and contribute hands-on to implementation and problem solving.
- Improve reliability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency while mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, or statistics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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.
- 3+ years of technical leadership or domain-expert experience for 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 areas of ads marketplace optimization and the ability to reason across bidding, pacing, auctions, ranking, and user experience.
- Strong foundations in algorithms, optimization, statistics, and distributed systems, along with programming, software design, debugging, performance analysis, testing, and highly available systems.
- 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, market dynamics, ad reranking, slate optimization, ad load, placement, frequency optimization, and marketplace experimentation or causal evaluation.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages including long-term-success participation through equity.
- The role follows Snap’s default-together policy and expects employees to work in an office 4+ days per week.
- The position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.
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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.