Developer Productivity 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 Company’s 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 it's AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We are looking for an Engineer to join the Developer Productivity organization in Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• Work across our developer experience teams as well as our feature development teams to identify and fix bottlenecks in feature development at Snap.

• Build tooling to make day to day coding easy via fast and reliable code modification and build tools, a reliable CI/CD pipeline and a robust test Infrastructure

• Make it easy to set up coding environments, find libraries, and have well supported modern languages to use

• Define best practices, education and documentation for building with high craftsmanship

• Build thorough test strategies on a test platform that runs fast and catches bugs before they get to Snapchatters

• Build tools that help engineering and Quality Assurance teams address bugs effectively

• Deliver quality releases out to our customers week after week, ensure tooling that bring end to end, failure resilient automation to our release process

• Empower our developers to deliver custom experiences to our customer cohorts based on their circumstances, through server side controls so they don’t have to wait for client release to optimize our customer experience

• Create mechanisms to prevent regressions in client resource usage(crashes, memory leaks, app size, etc)

• Build localization tools that allow us to offer high quality, bug free experience to our customers around the world

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Deep experience with the software development lifecycle and the most common tools used during development:

  • Source Control (Git preferred), Build Systems (Bazel preferred), Continuous Integration, artifact management, test case management, feature flagging, monitoring.

• Experience with large scale platform migrations of actively developed systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 14+ years of software engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Developer productivity work in mobile apps environment

• Experience with distributed systems and Big-Data infrastructure

• Experience with large scale consumer facing platforms

• Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments

• Deep knowledge of and experience working with a diverse group of engineer

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments

• Someone who loves to learn, and is passionate about helping others

"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 at least 80% of the time (an average of 4 days per week).

If you are not based in the same location(s) listed for this role and are open to relocation, we encourage you to apply to take advantage of our generous relocation policy. 

For CA based applicants: 

• The base salary range for this position is $250,000 - 365,000 annually

• This position is eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus

• This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs

For WA based applicants: 

• The base salary range for this position is $250,000 - 365,000 annually

• This position is eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus

• This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs

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].

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve 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 maternity & paternity leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!