Staff Backend Engineer — Scale-Driven Systems Leader

Snapchat, Inc.; Santa Clarita (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Snap Inc in California seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate our most critical services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence. You will work across teams to convert product requirements into robust, scalable systems.

You will evaluate trade-offs, uphold availability and security, and leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity and production-quality code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services across user identity, friend graph, and persistence layers.
• Collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into robust, observable systems.
• Advocate for availability, security, and operational excellence while delivering high-quality code.

Skills

Backend services

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Incident resolution

AI tooling familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field (CS or equivalent)

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Snap Inc in California seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate our most critical services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence. You will work across teams to convert product requirements into robust, scalable systems.

You will evaluate trade-offs, uphold availability and security, and leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity and production-quality code.