Staff Software Engineer, MDP, 9+ 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 Engineer to join the Media Delivery Platform team! 

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and scale critical media backend services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives

• Drive media encoding/transcoding strategy optimizations to improve Snap user media experience and save media cost.

• Make intelligent trade-offs among media quality, media performance and cost

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

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

• Provide technical direction that influences the entire media domain

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design

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

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

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work

• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems

• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience

• 9+ years of software engineering experience in industry

• Experience with distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science

• Ability to promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.

• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach.

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

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

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

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