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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. The role involves collaborating across teams to meet product requirements, ensuring high quality through testing and debugging, and advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. Engineers will leverage AI tools for efficient service design and shipping while maintaining rigorous standards.
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 to ensure high quality.
- Advocate for and apply best practices for 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.
Requirements
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems.
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale.
- Ability to independently execute on medium-sized features.
- Understanding of the operational aspects of systems and potential participation in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution.
- Ability to collaborate and work well with others.
- Experience in at least one of the following areas: Large-scale microservices and distributed systems, Cloud computing and storage systems, Infrastructure and large-scale system design, Security, Networking and data storage, Machine learning and natural language processing tools.
- Proficiency in, or strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, with critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools.
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience.
- 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field.
- Experience working with distributed systems.
Skills
- Backend services
- Distributed systems
- Highly-available systems
- AI tools
- Java
- C++
- Python
- NoSQL solutions
- Memcache/Redis
- Kubernetes
- Google services
- AWS services
Location
- Zone A (CA, WA, NYC)
- Zone B
- Zone C
Work Type
- Office (4+ days per week)
Experience Level
- 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience
- 1+ year of post-grad software development experience (with Master's)
- Relevant PhD 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): $157,000-$235,000 annually
- Zone B: $149,000-$223,000 annually
- Zone C: $133,000-$200,000 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 focused on improving how people live and communicate through the camera.
- The company operates Snapchat, Specs Inc., Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
- Snap Engineering teams build technically sophisticated products used by hundreds of millions of Snapchatters globally.
- The company values privacy, speed, precision, and community well-being.
Equal Opportunity
- 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).