Software Engineer, Level 3

About Snap

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate critical scalable services.
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver solutions.
• Test and debug work while maintaining high quality.
• Apply best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
• Participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution when needed.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, or equivalent years of experience.
• Experience with backend services or distributed systems.
• Ability to independently execute medium-sized features over several weeks and multiple pull requests.
• Ability to understand system operations and participate in incident or hotfix investigations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others.
• Proven experience operating highly available systems at significant scale.
• Experience coding in an industry-standard language such as Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, or C++.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with NoSQL, Memcache or Redis, Kubernetes, or Google or AWS services is preferred.
• Experience in large-scale microservices, cloud computing and storage, infrastructure and system design, security, networking, or data storage is preferred.

Workplace policy

• Snap follows a default-together policy and expects team members to work in an office four or more days per week.

Compensation

• The annual base salary range is $118,000 to $176,000 in Zone A, $112,000 to $167,000 in Zone B, and $100,000 to $150,000 in Zone C.
• The position is eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Benefits include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation linked to Snap's long-term success.