Hybrid Software Engineer, Backend – Level 5

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About the role

  • Backend Engineer designing and operating critical scalable services at Snap Inc. Collaborating across teams to deliver innovative products and ensuring high quality results.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate our most 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 the solutions needed to build innovative products
  • Evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality
  • Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

Requirements

  • 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
  • Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
  • Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services

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

Software Engineer, Backend – Level 5

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$209,000 - $313,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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