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, technical leadership or domain-expert experience, and a relevant technical degree plus substantial post-grad software development experience. The role follows a default-together policy requiring office attendance four or more days per week, with base salaries ranging from $195,000 to $343,000 annually depending on the work location, plus RSU equity.
