Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ads Platform team at Snap.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

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.