Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.

Were looking for a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to join the Specs team at Snap Inc!

What youll do:

• Design build and operate foundational cloud platform components on AWS and GCP that power Spectacles and the next generation of AR experiences at Snap.

• Build shared infrastructure for Spectacles - such as service mesh identity and access management observability secure compute environments and multi-region data and compute platforms - that engineering teams across Specs consume as reusable building blocks.

• Own services end-to-end in production including SLOs on-call rotations capacity planning and incident response ensuring Spectacles experiences stay reliable globally.

• Engineer infrastructure with strong isolation encryption and access-control guarantees so security and privacy are built in by design - a critical bar for a wearable always-on AR device.

• Partner with internal product and engineering teams across Specs to onboard them onto new platform capabilities and make sure those platforms meet their requirements.

• Collaborate with Security Privacy and Compliance partners to ensure infrastructure meets Snaps bar for data protection and regulatory obligations.

• Help shape the longer-term technical direction of the Spectacles cloud platform and mentor other engineers on the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent practical experience

• Hands-on experience designing building and operating distributed systems and cloud infrastructure at scale on AWS (e.g. EC2 EKS S3 IAM VPC KMS)

• Proficiency in Go

• Production experience with Kubernetes Docker Terraform and CI/CD pipelines

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems networking and cloud architecture

• Ability to drive scope and deliver complex platform projects with minimal supervision

• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias for diving into end-to-end details

• Friendly efficient and proactive communicator who collaborates effectively across engineering security privacy product and design teams

• Comfortable balancing the need to ship foundational capabilities quickly with the stability and operational maturity expected of platform infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in addition to AWS and familiarity with multi-cloud and multi-region architectures

• Hands-on experience building shared platform components - service mesh (Istio Linkerd or Envoy) networking identity or observability -consumed by other engineering teams

• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry) and secrets / identity management (Vault SPIFFE/SPIRE mTLS)

• Experience with confidential / secure compute environments zero-trust architectures or privacy-preserving systems

• Working knowledge of C Java Python and/or TypeScript in addition to Go

• Prior experience leading a small team of junior-to-senior engineers and owning platform-level technical direction

• Experience supporting consumer hardware wearables or AR/VR products from the cloud

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Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.

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.

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community so weve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave comprehensive medical coverage emotional and mental health support programs and compensation packages that let you share in Snaps long-term success!