Staff Software Engineer, Backend, 11+ Years of Experience

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 Software Engineer at Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical compute and network infrastructure ranging from Snap's multi-cloud Service Mesh Control Plane and Data Plan components, Traffic Management and efficient load-balancing.

• Drive Snap's K8s Fleet Management, Deployment Orchestration, Safe Rollouts and Workload scheduling onto Managed Infrastructure that is continuously upgraded, secured, and optimized by default

• Lead the vision of Snap's Distributed Async Task Queues and Workload Scheduling Platform

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver Infrastructure solutions needed to build innovative products

• You evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality

• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems

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

• You can independently execute on medium sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete

• You understand the operational aspects of your system and may participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

• 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

• Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes
   

Minimum Qualifications: 

• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience

• 11+ years of software development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python

• Experience with Google/AWS services

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 v