3 days ago
Base Salary
$195k - $343k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate critical scalable backend services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence systems.
- Collaborate across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver technical solutions.
- Test, debug, and improve software quality and production readiness.
- Advocate for availability, scalability, operational excellence, security, and cost-management best practices.
- Use AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows while auditing generated output for architectural, performance, and security risks.
- Participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent years of practical work experience.
- At least 9 years of post-bachelor's software development experience, or a master's degree with at least 8 years of post-graduate experience, or a PhD with at least 5 years of post-graduate experience.
- At least 1 year of technical leadership or domain-expert experience within a technical organization.
- Experience with backend services and distributed systems, including operating highly available systems at significant scale.
- Ability to independently deliver medium-sized features, understand system operations, and collaborate effectively.
- Experience in at least one of large-scale microservices and distributed systems, cloud computing and storage systems, infrastructure and large-scale system design, security, networking and data storage, or machine learning and natural language processing tools.
- Proficiency in or strong aptitude for using AI tools, with the judgment to assess generated output for architecture, performance, and security.
- Preferred experience with Java, C++, Python, NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that include long-term-success participation.
- Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.
- Default-together work arrangement requiring employees to work in an office 4 or more days per week.
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.