Manager, Software Engineering, Core Infrastructure

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 operates Snapchat , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji , Saturn, and other digital services.

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a Core Infrastructure team, which is part of the broader Platform Engineering organization. The team builds and owns platform systems to manage Compute infrastructure for all Snap backends. Our systems are widely adopted and power critical Snap verticals like Ads, Content Feed, Messaging, Story Posting, Media Delivery, Memories, and ML Platform. at the internet scale.

This is a hands-on role, requiring strong technical background, ability to actively contribute to team's technical strategy and direction, participate in design discussions, and guide the team through complex technical challenges.

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What you’ll do:

Manage and mentor a team of backend and full-stack developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment

Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver

Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders

Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor

Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Background with building high availability and mission critical systems

Experience with leading an engineering team Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience1+ years of experience managing a team of engineers

Experience with distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion

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

Experience with Ops-heavy backend systems/services

Experience with microservices architecture, and Kubernetes containerize applications 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 4+ days per week.

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…