Snap Inc. is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Growth Team to design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services that impact hundreds of millions of users.
Requirements
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems
- 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, Information Retrieval/Search Systems, Machine learning for search and/or recommender systems, Notifications infrastructure, Search engine optimization
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
- 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
- Experience with Java, C++ and or Go
- Building and operating ML/ML-adjacent systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from ML systems, push notifications, friending graph, login and registration etc.
- Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products.
- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
- Drive technical influence that spans the entire company.
Other
- Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment
- Experience working directly with business critical functions like growth.
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments.
- work in an office 4+ days per week.
- 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.
