Snap Inc. is a camera company. We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Our products empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join Snap Inc! This role will be based from our San Francisco,Seattle, New York or Mountain View offices offices.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services for Snap Map and Places.

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products

You evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Large-scale microservices and distributed systems

  • Data ETL (extract, transform, load) to consume and conflate between data sources

  • Vector tiles and OpenStreetMap

  • Cloud computing and storage systems

  • Infrastructure and large-scale system design

  • Networking and data storage

  • Machine learning and natural language processing

•  Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

•  Experience with Java, Golang, C++, and/or Python

•  Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, and/or Google/AWS services

• You can independently execute on medium sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete

• You understand the operational aspects of your system and feel comfortable participating in incident response or hotfix investigation and resolution

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

​Minimum Qualifications: 

• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience

• 4+ years of software development experience

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at accommodations-ext@snap.com.