Principal Software Engineer, Growth, Level 7

Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Growth Team at Snap Inc!

What you will do:

• Design implement and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from ML systems push notifications friending graph login and registration etc.

• Work across teams to understand product requirements evaluate trade-offs and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products.

• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability scalability operational excellence and cost management.

• Drive technical influence that spans the entire company.

Knowledge Skills and Capabilities:

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems

• 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

  • Information Retrieval/Search Systems

  • Machine learning for search and/or recommender systems

  • Notifications infrastructure

  • Search engine optimization

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10 years of post-Bachelors software development experience; or a Masters degree in a technical field 9 year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field 6 years of post-grad software development experience

• 2 years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization

• Experience with Java C and or Go

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment

• Experience working directly with business critical functions like growth.

• Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment.

• Building and operating ML/ML-adjacent systems.

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing highly collaborative multi-site multi-stakeholder environments.

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Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.

At Snap we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. EOE including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring where applicable).

Compensation

In the United States work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications work location and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

The base salary range for this position is $276000-$414000 annually.

The base salary range for this position is $262000-$393000 annually.

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The base salary range for this position is $235000-$352000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

Required Experience:

Staff IC