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Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Level 6 at Snapchat

Compensation · Listed in posting

$229,000 – $343,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Los Angeles, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Snap Inc. is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence systems. The role involves cross-team collaboration, trade-off evaluation, testing, debugging, incident investigation, and application of best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, cost management, security, and production-quality code. Candidates need extensive distributed-systems and backend-service experience, a relevant technical degree, and significant post-degree software development experience; the role requires working in an office at least four days per week.

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