Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate critical, scalable backend services including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver innovative product solutions
• Evaluate, test, and debug work to ensure high quality and production readiness
• Advocate for best practices regarding availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Utilize AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows to design and ship services while maintaining rigorous standards for security and correctness

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field (Computer Science or equivalent)
• 2+ years of post-Bachelor software development experience (or Master's + 1 year, or PhD)
• Proven experience working with distributed systems
• Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale
• Ability to independently execute medium-sized features and participate in incident investigation/resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
• Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services
• Expertise in large-scale microservices, cloud computing, infrastructure design, security, or networking

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Emotional and mental health support programs
• Compensation packages including equity in the form of RSUs

About the Company

Snap Inc. is a technology company that believes the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Our core products include Snapchat, Lens Studio, and Spectacles. We build technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of users worldwide every day.