Snap Inc. · 9 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform, Level 6
Los Angeles, California
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$229K/yr - $343K/yr
8+ years expSnap Inc. is a technology company that empowers people to express themselves and communicate through innovative products. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical services within their data platform, ensuring high availability and scalability while collaborating across teams to meet product requirements.
Computer Software
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services
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.
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.
5001-10000 employees
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