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About the Role
Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including user identity, friend graph, and persistence layers. This role involves cross-team collaboration to define product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver innovative solutions. The engineer will also be responsible for testing, debugging, and advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management, while utilizing AI tools for high-velocity engineering.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including user identity, friend graph, and persistence layers.
- Collaborate 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 in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
- Utilize AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services, 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 participation in incident/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.
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools.
Skills
- Backend services
- Distributed systems
- High-availability systems
- AI tools
- Java
- C++
- Python
- NoSQL solutions
- Memcache/Redis
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud services
- AWS services
Location
- Zone A (CA, WA, NYC)
- Zone B
- Zone C
Work Type
- Office (4+ days per week)
Experience Level
- Staff Backend Engineer
- 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience
- Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience
- PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 1+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert
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 related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- Zone A (CA, WA, NYC): $229,000-$343,000 annually
- Zone B: $218,000-$326,000 annually
- Zone C: $195,000-$292,000 annually
- Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
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
About the Company
- Snap Inc. is a technology company focused on improving the way people live and communicate through the camera.
- The company operates Snapchat, Specs Inc., Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
- Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products reaching hundreds of millions of Snapchatters globally.
- The company is committed to the well-being of its global community and values privacy.
- Snap Inc. believes that being together in person helps build culture faster, reinforce values, and serve the community, customers, and partners better through dynamic collaboration.
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.