Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform, Level 6
About The Position
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. We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join Snap Inc! You can learn more about what we do from our blog post! What you’ll do: Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from logging platform, Airflow, Trino, managing petabytes of BQ and BQMI datasets 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
Requirements
- 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 Machine learning and natural language processing tools
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
- 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 1+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
- Experience with distributed systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
- Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from logging platform, Airflow, Trino, managing petabytes of BQ and BQMI datasets
- 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
Benefits
- paid parental leave
- comprehensive medical coverage
- emotional and mental health support programs
- compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
