Job Summary:
Snap Inc is a technology company that empowers people to express themselves through innovative products like Snapchat and augmented reality solutions. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ads Platform team to build next-generation ad formats, backend infrastructure, and solutions that enhance advertiser value and optimize performance.
Responsibilities:
โข Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.
โข Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization
โข Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services
โข Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
โข Provide technical direction that influences the entire company
โข Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to support Snapโs performance advertising suite
โข Technical influence that spans the entire company
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience
โข 10+ years of post-Bachelorโs software development experience; or a Masterโs 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
โข 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
โข Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
โข Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems
โข Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design
โข Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale
โข Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work
โข Skilled at solving ambiguous problems
โข Strong collaboration and mentorship skills
โข Ads domain expertise and a strong interest in Ads
Preferred:
โข Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
โข Proven track record of delivering large scale projects in attribution and measurement
โข Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale
โข Experience with backend services or distributed systems
โข Ads domain experience
Company:
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Venice, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.