Staff Software Engineer designing, implementing, and operating backend services for Snap’s growth notification platform. Leading technical direction and integrating growth notifications across communication channels for user engagement.
About the role
- Staff Backend Engineer at Snap Inc. responsible for designing and operating scalable services and advocating for best practices. Collaborating across teams to innovate and improve the product.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from logging platform, Airflow, Trino, managing petabytes of BQ and BQMI datasets
- 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
- 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a 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 to a technical organization
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
- 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, Machine learning and natural language processing tools
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
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