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About the Role
Snap Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers. This role involves cross-team collaboration to define product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver innovative solutions. The engineer will be responsible for testing, debugging, and advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management, while utilizing AI tools for efficient and high-quality service development.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer.
- Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver solutions for innovative products.
- Evaluate, test, and debug work, striving for high quality.
- Advocate for and apply best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
- Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production-ready quality code.
Requirements
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems.
- Experience in large-scale microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience in cloud computing and storage systems.
- Experience in infrastructure and large-scale system design.
- Experience in security.
- Experience in networking and data storage.
- Experience in machine learning and natural language processing.
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale.
- Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python.
- Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services.
- Ability to independently execute on medium-sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete.
- Understanding of the operational aspects of your system and potential participation in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution.
- Ability to collaborate and work well with others.
- Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices.
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience.
- 6+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 5+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field + 2+ years of post-grad software development experience.
- Experience with distributed systems.
Skills
- Backend services
- Distributed systems
- Large-scale microservices
- Cloud computing
- Storage systems
- Infrastructure
- Large-scale system design
- Security
- Networking
- Data storage
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Java
- C++
- Python
- NoSQL solutions
- Memcache
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- Google services
- AWS services
- AI tools
Location
- Zone A (CA, WA, NYC)
- Zone B
- Zone C
Work Type
- Office 4+ days per week
Experience Level
- 6+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience
- Master’s degree in a technical field + 5+ year of post-grad software development experience
- PhD in a relevant technical field + 2+ years of post-grad software development experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
- Master's degree in a technical field
- PhD in a relevant technical field
Salary/Compensations
- Zone A (CA, WA, NYC): $209,000-$313,000 annually
- Zone B: $199,000-$297,000 annually
- Zone C: $178,000-$266,000 annually
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Emotional and mental health support programs
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success (RSUs)
About the Company
- Snap Inc. is a technology company that believes 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 operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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).