Principal Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

What you’ll do:

• Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks, conversion, and value for advertisers.
• Work end‑to‑end across new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization.
• Collaborate across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade‑offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services.
• Advocate for and apply best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company.
• Support Snap’s performance advertising suite.

• 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 proactively learn new concepts and technologies and apply them at work.
• Strong problem‑solving skills for ambiguous problems.
• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills.
• Ads domain expertise and a strong interest in Ads.

• Bachelor’s in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of post‑Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree + 9+ years of post‑grad experience; or PhD + 6+ years of post‑grad experience.
• 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain‑expert to a technical organization.
• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems.

• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects.
• Proven track record of delivering large‑scale projects in attribution and measurement.
• Experience operating highly‑available systems at significant scale.
• Experience with backend services or distributed systems.
• Ads domain experience.

• Paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Emotional and mental health support programs.
• Compensation packages that share in Snap’s long‑term success.
• Equity in the form of RSUs.

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 protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

EOE, including disability/vets.