Systems Engineer, Level 4

Job Summary
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Snap Inc. is a technology company that focuses on enhancing communication through innovative camera technology. They are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Spectacles Systems, Integration and Test team, responsible for building and maintaining the device infrastructure and ensuring high availability and reliability of the Spectacles device lab.

Responsibilities
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• Build out the entire device fleet and be part of the team that will manage the infrastructure

• Build tools, services, and monitoring solutions to ensure the Spectacles device lab has the highest availability and reliability

• Participate in triaging and debugging efforts related to test execution and device failures

• Participate in remediation efforts, performing system maintenance, and regular patching

• Contribute to automation efforts by leveraging configuration management, images, and templates across hundreds of Linux, and MacOS hosts

• Design well documented services and tools which can be operationalized

• Leverage both commercial and open source tools/software to drive impact for the business while finding creative ways to reduce spend

• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision for scale and reliability

• Build and innovate on testing methodologies with Robotics, data collection and reporting

• Design, build and deploy custom hardware solutions to validate specialized test use cases

• Automate mobile platforms / hardware / firmware platforms at a large scale

• Make data driven decisions for infrastructure scaling and optimizations

• Collaborate and work well with a global and cross-functional team of Mobile , Embedded and Computer vision, Electrical Engineering and Snap backend infrastructure teams

• Perform code reviews and ensure high code quality — all while iterating quickly

• Regularly use the products we are building to continually grow context on how to improve the systems to support their development

• Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to optimize system performance, automate complex troubleshooting, and enhance testing accuracy and efficiency

Qualifications
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Required
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• 3+ years of post-Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering experience building, automating and maintaining large scale systems (physical and/or cloud) in Unix/Linux environments; or Master’s degree in a technical field +2years of post-grad experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field

• Excellent scripting (Python, bash, Go), configuration management (Ansible or similar), git and command-line skills

• Someone who gets excited by tough technical challenges and a penchant for high SRE principles

• Experience in building, analyzing and troubleshooting large scale systems

• Experience building automation frameworks, pipelines and harnesses

• Experience with AI coding and optimization tooling

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently

• Strong team player, customer focused and seeks out opportunities for improvement

• Natural curiosity for products, new technology and innovation

Preferred
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• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or engineering

• Excellent knowledge in Bash, Python and Git

• Skilled with building automation frameworks, pipelines and harnesses

• Experience working with system automation tools for imaging, configuration management (Ansible a plus), and continuous deployment

• Experience with data center operations and physical server infrastructure

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail

• Experience working with AR/VR, wearables or other IoT Devices

Company
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Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, US, , with a team of  employees. The company is currently Late Stage.