Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, 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 ML Inference / Feature Store services that power Snapchat’s recommendation systems for content recommendation, ads and friending

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the 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
     

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 NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, Docker or Google/AWS services

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Infrastructure and large-scale distributed system design

  • Machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch especially in inference settings

  • MLOps and managing production machine learning lifecycle

  • Online ranking/recommendations systems or information retrieval systems

  • Generative AI or Large Language Model inference, vector similarity search

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