Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Snap Inc.

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Santa Monica, CA Posted today

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As a Senior Cloud Software Engineer on the Specs team at Snap Inc., you will design, build, and operate foundational cloud platform components for Spectacles and future AR experiences on AWS and GCP. Your daily tasks include creating shared infrastructure such as service mesh, identity management, observability tools, and secure compute environments that other engineering teams can use. You will own services end-to-end in production, ensuring reliability through SLOs, on-call rotations, capacity planning, and incident response. Additionally, you will collaborate with Security, Privacy, and Compliance partners to ensure data protection compliance while shaping the long-term technical direction of Spectacles’ cloud platform and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires expertise in Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems, along with experience in multi-cloud architectures and observability tooling like Prometheus and Grafana.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform CI/CD Go GCP Istio Prometheus Grafana Vault OpenTelemetry

What you'll do

  • Design and build foundational cloud platform components on AWS and GCP for Spectacles.
  • Construct shared infrastructure like service mesh, IAM, observability tools for engineering teams to use.
  • Ensure services are reliable globally by managing SLOs, on-calls, capacity planning, and incident response.
  • Engineer secure compute environments with strong isolation, encryption, and access control guarantees.
  • Partner with internal teams to onboard them onto new platform capabilities and ensure compliance.
  • Collaborate with Security and Privacy partners to meet Snap's data protection standards.

What we're looking for

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on AWS expertise including EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, KMS for large-scale systems.
  • Proficient in Go with production experience using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals, networking skills, and cloud architecture knowledge.
  • Ability to independently drive complex platform projects and solve problems efficiently.

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About Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.

Snap Inc. currently has 55 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $209,000–$313,000 across 39 roles with salary data.

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