Software Engineer, Backend, Ad Marketplace

About This Role

Join Snap Inc.'s Ad Marketplace team as a Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical, scalable services optimizing ad delivery and auction dynamics across various Snap platforms. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, evaluating tradeoffs, and applying best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services optimizing various objectives of ad delivery across various Snap surfaces
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative marketplace solutions
• Evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality
• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Lead independently the design and development of a medium-sized feature in collaboration with colleagues
• Understand the operational aspects of your system and participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution

Requirements

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems
• Experience with large-scale microservices and distributed systems, infrastructure and large-scale system design, and/or operating highly-available systems at significant scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
• 6+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree + 5+ years; or PhD + 2+ years

Nice to Have

• Experience in ads domain
• Experience working on recommendation systems or two-sided markets
• Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python
• Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits