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Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Level 6

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Los Angeles$195k - $343kFull timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable backend services, collaborating across teams, and applying best practices for availability, scalability, and production readiness at Snap Inc.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer
  • Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products
  • Evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality
  • Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
  • Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
  • 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience
  • 1+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
  • Experience with distributed systems

Skills

Required:Backend servicesDistributed systemsIndependent feature executionIncident/hotfix resolutionCollaborationDomain areas

Benefits

  • Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
  • Snap Inc. benefits page available (benefits details)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Snap Inc.

We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

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