Staff Backend Engineer: Build Scalable AI-Driven Services

Snap Inc.; Northern, Los Angeles (KY, CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate highly scalable backend services across multiple domains, including identity, social graphs, and persistence. You will collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into robust solutions.

The role emphasizes high quality, scalable architectures, and responsible cost management, with AI tooling to accelerate development while upholding security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 9+ years post-Bachelor’s software development; or Master’s with 8+ years; or PhD with 5+ years.
• 1+ years in technical leadership or domain expert role.
• Experience with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence).
• Collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into solutions.
• Evaluate, test, and debug to achieve high quality.
• Advocate for availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Leverage AI tools to design and ship scalable services with strong security and production quality.

Skills

Backend/Distributed

High availability

Feature delivery

Incident response

Team collaboration

AI tooling

Education

Bachelors in CS or equivalent

9+ years software development

Masters +8 years

PhD +5 years

Tools

NoSQL

Memcache/Redis

Kubernetes

AWS/Google Cloud

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate highly scalable backend services across multiple domains, including identity, social graphs, and persistence. You will collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into robust solutions.

The role emphasizes high quality, scalable architectures, and responsible cost management, with AI tooling to accelerate development while upholding security and reliability.