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Snap Inc. · 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Level 6

Santa Monica, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$229K/yr - $343K/yr

9+ years exp

Snap Inc is a technology company that empowers people to express themselves through its innovative products. The Staff Software Engineer will join the Core Infrastructure team to design and optimize large-scale caching systems, ensuring high performance and reliability for critical applications.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Large-scale caching systemsDistributed systemsJavaPythonGoCloud ComputingService Oriented architecturesOperational excellenceProactive learningTechnical mentoring

Required

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

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

Preferred

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

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

Company

Snap Inc.

Glassdoor3.6

Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

Founded in 2011

Santa Monica, California, US

5001-10000 employees

https://careers.snap.com/

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