Senior Software Engineer, Snap Inc.
Calibration, Specs
4 days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Open for applications
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Strong software engineering skills in C++, or solid experience in a systems language with the ability to ramp quickly on C++
- Experience building high quality, performant, and maintainable software with strong unit and functional testing practices
- Experience supporting geometric computer vision, eye tracking, calibration, perception, imaging, sensors, or other technically adjacent workflows
- Experience building tools, libraries, pipelines, or infrastructure for calibration, validation, debugging, and performance analysis
- Familiarity with numerical methods, optimisation, and measurement quality metrics for real-world CV systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field
- Industry software development experience building production systems, tools, or infrastructure
Desirable
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping high performance software
- Experience with eye-tracking systems, gaze estimation, or calibration workflows
- Experience with geometric computer vision, camera or sensor calibration, or related production CV systems
- Experience working close to hardware, sensors, operating systems, or resource-constrained devices
- Practice designing reusable APIs, tooling, platforms, or developer workflows
What the job involves
- The Spectacles team is pushing the boundaries of technology to bring people closer together in the real world. Our fifth-generation Spectacles, powered by Snap OS, showcase how standalone, see-through AR glasses make playing, learning, and working better together
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Spectacles team!
- Design, build, and support software systems, tools, and workflows that enable computer vision development for Spectacles
- Develop production-quality C++ and supporting infrastructure for CV-related pipelines, tooling, and internal developer workflows
- Improve the reliability, quality, and efficiency of CV development, validation, and calibration workflows, with a focus on eye-tracking calibration
- Build tools and workflows to evaluate calibration quality, diagnose failures, and improve robustness across devices, users, and environments
- Build high quality, maintainable, and performant code with strong testing and operational standards
- Participate in code and design reviews
- Work closely with computer vision, platform, product, and infrastructure teams to turn research and prototypes into robust engineering solutions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Snap Inc. is the social-media company behind Snapchat, a mobile app launched in 2011 that prioritises visual and emotive communication over traditional texting. Born from a desire to share real-time moments with authenticity, the app now boasts a massive global reach with daily active users surpassing 460M and monthly active users well beyond 900M.
After rejecting a billion-dollar acquisition offer from MEta Platforms (then Facebook) in 2023, Snapchat entered into a long-term rivalry with Meta's apps (most notably Instagram). Despite the competition, Snap has carved out a distinct place in the social-media landscape by innovating features such as the "Discover" tab, augmented-reality (AR) lenses, in-app gaming, paid subscriptions via Snapchat+, and robust ad-monetisation options.
Snap has yet to post a full-year profit since going public in 2017, but the company is clearly making progress. In Q1 2025 the net loss was narrowed to roughly $140M, down from $305M the year before, and revenue rose 14% to $1.36B. Advertising revenue remains periodic and macro-factors still pose headwinds, yet Snaps enduring popularity and its expanding product mix suggest that further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company 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
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
- Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
- 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
- 12 paid holidays per year
- 15 sick and safe days 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!
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a BS in Product Design.
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