Snap Inc is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Core Infrastructure team to design, build, and optimize large-scale caching systems.
Requirements
- Hands-on knowledge of large-scale caching systems like Redis/KeyDB/Valkey.
- Background with building high availability and mission critical distributed systems
- Experience with Java, Go, C++, and/or Python
- Experience with large scale distributed systems, and Cloud Computing
- Experience with Service Oriented architectures and Service Mesh
- Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical and highly-available global distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize large-scale caching systems (Redis/KeyDB/Valkey, custom proxy layers or custom client lib).
- Develop and maintain high-performance caching proxies or client side libraries for request routing, connection coalescing, and slot-aware load balancing.
- Implement robust failover, replication, and cluster topology management and optimize cpu performance, memory usage, persistence, and eviction strategies for low-latency workloads.
- Enhance observability: metrics, tracing, and debugging tools for cache infra.
- Drive benchmarking, tuning, and capacity planning for 125M+ QPS scale.
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
- Collaborate with infra, storage, and application teams to integrate caching into critical paths.
Other
- Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work
- 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.
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
