Software Engineer, Tools & Infrastructure

Snap Inc. is a camera company. We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Our products empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure to join Team Snapchat!  As a member of this team, you will design and implement platforms, tools and infrastructure that helps efficiently scale the work of thousands of software engineers.   You will define best practices, automation, and tools that define how to build software efficiently and effectively at Snap. You will constantly be improving common development patterns used at Snap, delighting our developers with frictionless development and release workflows.

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What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and operate our most critical infrastructure for software development

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to enhance the development experience

• Build strong tools foundations with an eye for technical excellence, allowing for rapid feature iteration/evolution

• Solve common development problems at scale throughout Snapchat (Build, Test, Deploy, CI/CD, Metrics, Monitoring, Crashes, Memory Usage, App Size, Performance, Config Optimization, Collaboration Tools)

• You evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality

• Be a strong executor/operator with an eye for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience with large scale software development.

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Infrastructure and large-scale system design

  • Modern build systems (Bazel, Buck, Gradle, CMake, Xcode)

  • IDEs and code indexing

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Mobile testing infrastructure

  • Mobile release with AppStore and Playstore

  • Source control and artifact management

  • Developer focused internal tools

  • Experience with data visualization and analysis (e.g., Looker, BigQuery)

• Experience with Python, C++, Objective C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, and/or Go

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience

• 7+ years of software development experience

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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at [email protected].