Staff Software Engineer - Android Performance, Reliability & Efficiency

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 Staff Android Engineer to guide Performance, Reliability & Efficiency (PRE) of Snapchat! We want to make communicating on Snapchat the fastest and most stable way to communicate.

What you’ll do:

• Own the Snapchat Android strategy for key PRE areas including Crashes (including ANRs), UI Performance, Battery usage, and app size.

• Implement app wide optimizations & defensive guardrails for key PRE metrics.

• Influence key decisions and tradeoffs on architecture and implementation of client side features both for native and cross platform technologies.

• Build cutting edge telemetry and tracing to detect, group and root cause PRE issues at scale.

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

• Work cross functionally with Data Scientists, PM and TPM partners to identify & execute on high impact PRE efforts.

• Be a core member of Snapchat’s Android TLs to influence development across all of Snapchat.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of the OS internals, compilers, optimization for low-power and mobile systems

• Proven understanding of Java runtime and processes which run “under the hood”

• Proficiency with multithreading and performance optimization techniques for Android

• Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms and data structures) and problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of software design patterns and Android best practices

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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 Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience

• Experience with Android application development 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Kotlin and Java

• Experience debugging cross platform code

• Experience with C/C++

• Experience with distributed systems, especially those related to crash symbolification and telemetry.  

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