Manager, Software Engineering, Media Platform

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join the Snap Media Platform team!

What you’ll do:

• Help define the technical vision for the media encoding/transcoding domain for the Snapchat media platform. 

• Build cutting edge media encoding/transcoding technologies to improve Snapchat user media experience and save media cost.

• Build and grow a team of exceptional software engineers and technical leaders and be a strong technical mentor

• Work cross functionally with data scientists, product & engineering partners to gather feature asks & set up a long term roadmap for media backend systems.

• Influence key decisions and tradeoffs on architecture and implementation of media backend systems.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong computer science fundamentals and technical skills

• Proficient in making data-driven decisions in complex technical problems.

• Ability to lead and represent the team’s goals and projects with cross-functional business partners and leaders

• Proven track record of operating highly-available backend systems at scale

• Proven track record of optimizing media/video experience and saving cost at scale

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4+ years of post-grad software development experience

• 1+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience working in software engineering

• Experience in building media processing and encoding/transcoding pipelines.

• Experience in building large scale media management and delivery systems.

• Experience in media quality around VMAF, Non reference VQA, Encoder optimizations.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people liv