Software Engineer, Snap Inc.

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on system performance, scalability, and efficiency
• Good understanding of distributed systems and the infrastructure components of large-scale ML
• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Ray
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others
• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work
• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent 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
• Experience building large scale production machine learning systems, distributed systems or big data processing

Desirable

• We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the Content Retrieval Platform team, part of the Content ML organization. We develop and operates on large scale retrieval system for content recommendation, partner with Applied ML teams for architecture changes and model developments
• We utilize Java/Go as the main indexing and serving languages with performant pieces in C++. We are building agentic repo starting from retrieval root and incubating L0.5, generative retrieval, and redesign of inference feature sourcing
• Design and optimize infrastructure systems for machine learning workloads at scale and drive reliability and efficiency improvements across Snapchat’s ML Infrastructure
• Build and enhance feature generation and serving pipelines that power online inferencing and offline training data generation
• Develop high-performance inference systems to ensure fast and efficient AI model serving
• Build infrastructure to perform scalable ML model training, evaluation, and inference in the cloud
• Build comprehensive data management systems for scalable data collection, labeling, processing, and evaluation
• Work closely with ML engineers to deploy cutting-edge models into production
• 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