Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: 2+ years
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join Snap Inc!
- Design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
- 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
- Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science
- Ability to promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.
- Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach.
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.
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