This role pays more than
93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$165,000–$223,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$261k
versus about
$194k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
As a Level 5 Backend Engineer joining Snap Inc.’s Ads Delivery Platform team, you will design and implement critical infrastructure for ad delivery, partnering with Product, Data Science, ML, and Infrastructure teams to translate product vision into scalable solutions. Your day-to-day involves maintaining high-quality production systems, ensuring robustness through observability, experimentation, and automation, while championing best practices in distributed systems, availability, scalability, and security. Ideal candidates have experience with distributed systems and building ad delivery or recommendation platforms, familiarity with ads concepts like targeting and auctions, and a track record of improving system efficiency at scale. Proficiency in relevant technologies such as networking, data storage, machine learning, and natural language processing is essential for this role that addresses the complex challenges of large-scale ad serving infrastructure.