Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

Snap Inc.

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WALos Angeles, CANew York, NYPalo Alto, CA
Salary
$229,000–$343,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $169,300–$246,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $286k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

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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 75 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $209,000–$313,000 across 64 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Platform joins the Delivery Platform team to build next-generation ad formats and backend infrastructure designed to increase clicks and conversion for advertisers. This role involves end-to-end work across new product ideas, experimentation, analysis, and optimization while providing technical direction that influences the entire company. The successful candidate will collaborate across teams to evaluate trade-offs and deliver solutions for the performance advertising suite. Key responsibilities include advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. Required skills include expert programming, software design, debugging, performance analysis, and test design. Candidates must have experience operating highly-available systems at scale, solving ambiguous problems, and possess specific expertise in the ads domain. The role focuses on technical leadership to solve complex backend services and distributed systems challenges within the advertising technology space.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $207500 from 315 postings across 35 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build next-generation ad formats and backend infrastructure to increase clicks and conversion for advertisers.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of new ad products, including experimentation, analysis, and optimization.
  • Evaluate technical trade-offs and product requirements to deliver solutions for Snap’s performance advertising suite.
  • Advocate for and implement best practices regarding system availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
  • Provide high-level technical direction that influences engineering initiatives across the entire company.
  • Solve complex, ambiguous problems related to distributed systems and large-scale backend services.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience, or a Master’s with 8+ years, or a PhD with 5+ years.
  • At least 1 year of experience in technical leadership and setting direction for engineering projects.
  • Excellent programming and software design skills including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.
  • Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous problems and proactively learn new technologies.
  • Experience with backend services or distributed systems (preferred).
  • Experience in the ads domain, attribution, or measurement (preferred).

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