Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer at Snap Inc. designing and scaling engineering components for the company's strategic initiatives. Collaborating across teams and advocating for best engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives
  • Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services
  • Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
  • Provide technical direction that influences the entire company

Requirements

  • Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience
  • 10+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 9+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
  • Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems

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

Job title

Principal Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$276,000 - $414,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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