Senior Engineering Manager, Core AI Platform
Dropbox
Software Engineering Manager
Snap Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $229,000 - $343,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
About the role
- Snap Inc is a technology company that builds camera-driven consumer products such as Snapchat, Lens Studio and Spectacles
- Manage and mentor a software development team to deliver high availability, mission-critical systems
- Set strategy, build roadmap, create measurable goals and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Evaluate technical tradeoffs, lead large complex initiatives, and hire/grow/retain team members
- Practice Snap's “Default Together” policy and work in an office 4+ days per week
Requirements
- Manage and mentor a team of developers in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
- Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
- Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
- Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members by creating growth opportunities, giving regular feedback, and managing performance
- Balance near, medium and long-term objectives to achieve business goals today while laying the foundations for a long term roadmap
- Background with building high availability and mission-critical systems
- Experience with leading an engineering team
- Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels of a company
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
- 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 1+ years of experience managing a team
- Experience with distributed systems and web development
- Preferred: Experience working on high-availability or real-time systems (e.g., messaging, payments, search, growth)
- Preferred: Familiarity with service oriented architecture and service orchestration
- Preferred: Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Preferred: Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical, highly-available, high QPS global systems
- Preferred: Experience with significant re-architecture or foundational platform projects in a fast-paced environment.
