We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ads 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
- Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code
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
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience
- 10+ years of post-Bachelor's software development experience; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 9+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
- Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
- Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems
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: 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):
The base salary range for this position is $276,000-$414,000 annually.
Zone B:
The base salary range for this position is $262,000-$393,000 annually.
Zone C:
The base salary range for this position is $235,000-$352,000 annually.
This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.
