Staff Software Engineer

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to support our Platform Engineering organization. 

The team builds and owns platform systems across Compute, Networking, and Metrics infrastructure, for all Snap backends. The team owns foundational infrastructure services spanning API Gateway, Service Mesh, Managed K8s infrastructure, Capacity Management, and Workload scheduling. These systems are widely adopted and power critical Snap verticals like Messaging, Story Posting, Media Delivery, Memories, Content Feed, Ads, ML Platform, Maps, Bitmoji, etc. at internet scale. This is a hands-on role, requiring strong technical background, ability to actively contribute to team's technical direction, participate in design discussions, and guide the team through complex technical challenges. 

You can learn more about what we do from our blog post !

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop systems across all three teams, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment

• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver

• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders

• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor

• Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Background with building high availability and mission critical systems

• Experience with leading an engineering team

• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience

• Experience with distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments

• Experience with large-scale and multi-cloud backend systems/services and networking services

• Experience with microservices architecture, and Kubernetes containerize applications

• Experience with Graphite or Prometheus

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

Zone B:

Zone C:

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.