Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Microservices & AI

Snap Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

Equity RSUs

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Snap Inc is seeking a Backend Engineer to join Snap Engineering to design, implement, and operate scalable services across identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers. You will test, debug, and ensure security and production readiness while collaborating across teams.

The role emphasizes availability, cost management, and using AI tools to accelerate development. Candidates should have distributed systems experience and prefer Java/C++/Python and cloud skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s +1 year; or PhD.
• Experience with distributed systems and operating highly-available systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services (identity, graph, persistence).
• Collaborate across teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Test, debug, and ensure code quality, security, and production readiness.
• Advocate for availability, scalability, and cost management.

Skills

Backend services

Distributed systems

Incidents & hotfixes

Collaboration

AI tooling

Cloud computing

Security awareness

Networking

Machine learning / NLP tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's degree in a technical field

PhD in a relevant technical field

Tools

Java

C++

Python

NoSQL

Memcached/Redis

Kubernetes

Google/AWS services

Job description

Snap Inc is seeking a Backend Engineer to join Snap Engineering to design, implement, and operate scalable services across identity, friend graph, and core persistence layers. You will test, debug, and ensure security and production readiness while collaborating across teams.

The role emphasizes availability, cost management, and using AI tools to accelerate development. Candidates should have distributed systems experience and prefer Java/C++/Python and cloud skills.