Principal Software Engineer Job Palo Alto area,California USA,Software Development

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snap chatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Core Growth Team at Snap Inc!

Core Growth’s mission is to power engineering needs to acquire and retain 1 Billion people who use Snapchat on a daily basis. We do not growth hack, we will grow our community by focusing on initiatives like friending, communicating, relevant notifications, story posting/viewing, account safety and more. We build the foundational engineering required to execute on all these initiatives sustainably. Some of the ways by which we accomplish this include new user acquisition via SEO/paid growth, account registration, new user onboarding, AI driven friending recommendations, contact book infrastructure, push notifications, SMS infrastructure etc.

The team is also responsible for search end to end (UX, AI driven ranking and backend).

What you will do:

Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from search systems, push notifications, friending graph, contact book management etc.
Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products.
Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
Drive technical influence that spans the entire company.

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities:

Experience with backend services or distributed systems
Experience in at least one of the following areas:
Large-scale microservices and distributed systems
Cloud computing and storage systems
Infrastructure and large-scale system design
Information Retrieval/Search Systems
Machine learning for search and/or recommender systems
Notifications infrastructure
Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience
14+ years of industry experience with large-scale software infrastructure and/or mobile application development.
Experience with Java, C++ and or Go

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment
Experience working directly with business critical functions like growth, monetization.
Experience working on AI Infrastructure
Experience partnering with cross-functional executives and management across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment.
Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments.

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