Snapchat-posted 5 days ago
$133,000 - $235,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Seattle, WA
Publishing Industries

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 Backend Engineer to join Snap Inc!

  • Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer
  • Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products
  • 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
  • Experience with backend services or distributed systems
  • Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
  • Ability to independently execute on medium sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete
  • Understanding of 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, Security, Networking and data storage, Machine learning and natural language processing tools
  • Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
  • Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services
  • 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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