Principal Software Engineer (Ads Format)

• We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ads Format team at Snap
• What you’ll do:
• Design and implement highly automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing to maximize user engagement and advertiser ROI
• Lead the vision and strategy for our next-generation ad formats infrastructure, focusing on scalability, performance, and advertiser value
• Innovate and conceptualize new ad format ideas, leveraging market trends, user behavior, and advertiser needs
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, data science, and other engineering teams, to deliver cohesive and impactful solutions
• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the team

Benefits

• Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program
• Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits
• Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance
• Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
• Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
• Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
• Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breastmilk shipping coverage
• For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy
• Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options
• Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
• Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits
• Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services
• Business Travel Insurance
• Gym perks and discounts
• Team fitness classes and races
• Sports leagues
• Cooking and nutritional workshops
• Well-being reimbursement
• Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem
• 15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra
• Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:
• Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members
• 15 sick and safe days per year
• 12 paid holidays per year
• Meditation and yoga classes
• Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs
• Social gatherings, team outings, and volunteering programs
• Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega backdoor option!) Snap will also match 100% up to 3% of your contribution and then 50% on your 4th and 5th%
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, daycare and commuter
• Health Savings Account with employer contributions
• Rocket Lawyer memberships
• Financial education programs
• Snap exclusive discounts and perks
• Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Preferred experience

• 10+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 9+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience
• Minimum Qualifications:
• Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems
• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale
• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design
• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems
• Ads domain experience
• 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
• Client side and full stack experience preferred
• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work
• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems
• Experience with cross-platform development
• Ability to promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives
• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach