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Snap Inc. is looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives, working across teams to deliver innovative products and services.

Requirements

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design
• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale
• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work
• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems
• Experience with platform development

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
• Architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems
• Platform development
• Promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.

Other

• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills
• 4+ 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
• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach.
• work in an office 4+ days per week.