Principal Software Engineer, Business Experience

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

- Design and implement systems that support the advertiser experiences and creator ads platform at Snap.

- Lead the vision and strategy for our next-generation infrastructure, focusing on scalability, performance, and driving advertiser value.

- Innovate and conceptualize new advertiser flows and creator marketplace products, 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 a high bar 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 advertiser or creator platforms or similar 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

- 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

- 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.