Staff Backend Architect: Storage & Caching

Snap Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

RSU equity

Job summary

Snap Inc in California is seeking an L6 Staff Technical Lead to define strategy and technical direction for storage, caching, and identity infrastructure. You will drive multi-quarter initiatives, design and operate large-scale distributed systems across AWS and GCP, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape the platform for an AI-first future.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and operating backend services at scale.
• Ability to lead architecture and platform direction beyond a single team.
• Strong collaboration with senior stakeholders and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for Snap's storage, caching, and identity platforms.
• Design, build and operate foundational backend infrastructure with reliability and performance focus.
• Mentor engineers and drive multi-quarter, multi-year roadmaps.
• Partner with infrastructure and product teams to align technical direction and investments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

Python

C++

Kubernetes

Job description

Snap Inc in California is seeking an L6 Staff Technical Lead to define strategy and technical direction for storage, caching, and identity infrastructure. You will drive multi-quarter initiatives, design and operate large-scale distributed systems across AWS and GCP, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape the platform for an AI-first future.