Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

SNAP, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 229,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU equity

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Delivery Platform team in Bellevue, WA, focusing on building next-generation ads formats and backend infrastructure.

You will collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into scalable, high-performance systems and drive optimization with a strong emphasis on privacy and cost management. You will provide technical direction across the company, lead by example in availability and reliability, and help shape Snap’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field as listed.
• 9+ years post-Bachelor software development experience or equivalent.
• 1+ year of technical leadership/ownership and setting direction.

Responsibilities

• Build next-gen ads formats and backend infrastructure to drive clicks and conversions.
• Work end-to-end across ads product ideas, formats, or infra experiments and optimization.
• Collaborate across teams to understand requirements and trade-offs for innovative products.
• Advocate for availability, scalability, and cost management; ensure operational excellence.
• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company.
• Support Snap’s performance advertising suite with cross-team collaboration.
• Influence technology decisions affecting the whole organization.

Skills

Software design

Scale systems

Learning agility

Ambiguity resolution

Mentorship

Ads domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Math/Stats

Master's degree in technical field

Job description

Bellevue, Washington

Palo Alto, California

Los Angeles, California

New York, New York

Full time

R0046999

Snap Inc (https://www.snap.com/en-US/) is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat (http://snapchat.com/?lang=en-US) , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc. (https://www.specs.com/) , a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji (http://bitmoji.com/) , Saturn, and other digital services.

Snap Engineering (https://eng.snap.com/) teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values (https://eng.snap.com/values) are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Delivery Platform team at Snap.

What you’ll do:

• Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.

• Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services

• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to support Snap’s performance advertising suite

• Technical influence that spans the entire company

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work

• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems

• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills

• Ads domain expertise and a strong interest in Ads

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience

• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience

• 1+ year of experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

• Proven track record of delivering large scale projects in attribution and measurement

• Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems

• Ads domain experience

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

Our Benefits (http://careers.snap.com/benefits) :

Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long‑term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC) (https://careers.snap.com/us-payzones) :

The base salary range for this position is $229,000-$343,000 annually.

Zone B (https://careers.snap.com/us-payzones) :

The base salary range for this position is $218,000-$326,000 annually.

Zone C (https://careers.snap.com/us-payzones) :

The base salary range for this position is $195,000-$292,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

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