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Snap Inc. · 7 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$229K/yr - $343K/yr

8+ years exp

Snap Inc. is a technology company focused on improving communication through innovative products like Snapchat and AR technologies. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to support their Platform Engineering organization, responsible for building and owning platform systems across Compute, Networking, and Metrics infrastructure for Snap backends.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and develop systems across all three teams, 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, 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

Qualification

Distributed systemsCloud infrastructureMicroservices architectureKubernetesHigh availability systemsEngineering team leadershipGraphitePrometheusComplex technical initiativesTechnical mentorship

Required

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

8+ years of post-Bachelor's software development experience; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience

Experience with distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure technologies

Background with building high availability and mission critical systems

Experience with leading an engineering team

Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Preferred

Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion

Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments

Experience with large-scale and multi-cloud backend systems/services and networking services

Experience with microservices architecture, and Kubernetes containerize applications

Experience with Graphite or Prometheus

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

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs

Company

Snap Inc.

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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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