
Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform
Snap Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $276,000 - $414,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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
- Technical influence that spans the entire company
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- paid parental leave
- comprehensive medical coverage
- emotional and mental health support programs
- compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentdistributed systemstechnical leadershipsystem architecturedata analysisoptimizationproduct developmentbackend infrastructureads formatsperformance advertising
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinginfluenceadvocacyevaluationtrade-off analysisoperational excellencecost managementinnovation
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhD