Snap Inc.-posted 4 days ago
$229,000 - $343,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Bellevue, WA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
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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 Software Engineer to join Snap Inc on our Core Infrastructure team!

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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