Backend Engineer (L3) – Scale Modern Distributed Services

Snap Inc.; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer in Bellevue to design, implement, and operate highly scalable services, including identity, social graphs, and core persistence. You will collaborate across teams, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver robust solutions with strong testing and debugging practices.

The role emphasizes availability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence at scale, with a focus on high-quality software and teamwork in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.
• 1 year of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer.
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products.
• You evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality.
• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.

Skills

Backend services

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Incident resolution

Education

BS/BA in CS or equivalent

1 year post-bachelor experience or MS

Tools

Java

C

Python

NoSQL

Memcached/Redis

Kubernetes

GCP/AWS

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer in Bellevue to design, implement, and operate highly scalable services, including identity, social graphs, and core persistence. You will collaborate across teams, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver robust solutions with strong testing and debugging practices.

The role emphasizes availability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence at scale, with a focus on high-quality software and teamwork in a fast-paced environment.