Software Engineer, Backend, Ad Marketplace, Level 5

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 Senior Backend Engineer to join the Ad Marketplace team at Snap, encompassing a broad range of responsibilities including bidding, pacing, auction dynamics, pricing strategies, and supply management.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services optimizing various objectives of ad delivery across various Snap surfaces.

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

• 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

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Large-scale microservices and distributed systems

  • Infrastructure and large-scale system design

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

• Leading independently the design and development of a medium-sized feature in collaboration with colleagues, with an estimated duration of a few months and multiple milestones for completion.

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

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments

• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 6+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 5+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field + 2+ years of post-grad software development experience

• Experience with distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in ads domain

• Experience working on recommendation systems or two-sided markets

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

• Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services

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