Staff Software Engineer, Level 6

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 Software Engineer to join Snap Inc on our Core Infrastructure team! 

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and optimize large-scale caching systems (Redis/KeyDB/Valkey, custom proxy layers or custom client lib).

• Develop and maintain high-performance caching proxies or client side libraries for request routing, connection coalescing, and slot-aware load balancing.

• Implement robust failover, replication, and cluster topology management and optimize cpu performance, memory usage, persistence, and eviction strategies for low-latency workloads.

• Enhance observability: metrics, tracing, and debugging tools for cache infra.

• Drive benchmarking, tuning, and capacity planning for 125M+ QPS scale.

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

• Collaborate with infra, storage, and application teams to integrate caching into critical paths.

• Contribute to code quality via reviews, documentation, and deep dives into caching internals.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Hands-on knowledge of  large-scale caching systems like Redis/KeyDB/Valkey.

• Background with building high availability and mission critical distributed systems

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

• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience

• 9+ years industry software engineering experience

• Experience with large scale distributed systems, and Cloud Computing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Service Oriented architectures and Service Mesh

• Experience promoting operational excellence, leading incident management, and post mortems

• Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical and highly-available global distributed systems

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 voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that imp