Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: 2+ years
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ads Format team at Snap.
- Design and implement highly automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing to maximize user engagement and advertiser ROI.
- Lead the vision and strategy for our next-generation ad formats infrastructure, focusing on scalability, performance, and advertiser value.
- Innovate and conceptualize new ad format ideas, leveraging market trends, user behavior, and advertiser needs.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, data science, and other engineering teams, to deliver cohesive and impactful solutions.
- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
- Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the team.
- Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems.
- 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
- 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
- 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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