Manager, Software Engineering, Core Infrastructure

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a Core Infrastructure team, which is part of the broader Platform Engineering organization. The team builds and owns platform systems to manage Compute infrastructure for all Snap backends. Our systems are widely adopted and power critical Snap verticals like Ads, Content Feed, Messaging, Story Posting, Media Delivery, Memories, and ML Platform. at the internet scale. This is a hands-on role, requiring strong technical background, ability to actively contribute to team's technical strategy and direction, participate in design discussions, and guide the team through complex technical challenges. 

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What you’ll do:

• Manage and mentor a team of backend and full-stack developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
• Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Background with building high availability and mission critical systems
• Experience with leading an engineering team
• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience
• 1+ years of experience managing a team of engineers
• Experience with distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion
• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience with Ops-heavy backend systems/services
• Experience with microservices architecture, and Kubernetes containerize applications

"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. 

: 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

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