Engineering Manager, Host identity and Personalization Services

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 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 it's 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.

Identity Team Info

• Own highly scalable, distributed services that host and serve user and friend metadata to power Snap’s Growth, Revenue and Engagement Verticals 

• Build and Scale Snap’s dynamic configuration to personalize features on Snap 

• Build a social graph using user and friend signals to improve retrieval and ranking relevance across Growth, Revenue and Engagement Verticals 

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join Snap!

What you’ll do:

• Lead a team of highly talented backend and client engineers to architect, and renovate Snap's large scale User, Friends and Personalization multi-cloud infrastructure

• Manage and mentor a team of full-stack developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment

• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver

• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Cloud Providers, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders

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

• Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure and operational excellence patterns and practices

• Background with building high availability and mission critical distributed systems

• Experience with leading an engineering team

• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 9+ years of experience working in software engineering

• 2+ years of experience managing a team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud Storage services such as DynamoDB, Spanner, BigTable, and FireStore

• Experience with distributed systems