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Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Snapchat

Compensation

$195,000 – $343,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, Washington · Seattle, Washington · +3
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Snap Inc. is hiring an L6 Staff Tech Lead to build, manage, and scale the backend Service Infrastructure platform powering critical services such as Stories, Messaging, Content Feed, Growth, Ads, ML Platform, Maps, and Media Delivery. The role leads technical direction across service mesh, compute, observability, and platform capabilities; designs and operates highly available distributed systems; drives reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience; and mentors engineers across team boundaries. The position requires extensive backend and distributed-systems experience, technical leadership, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, with a default-together office expectation of 4+ days per week.

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