Software Engineering Manager, Snap
Machine Learning Infrastructure, AI Training Platform
$222-333k
Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Social media & camera company
Be an early applicant
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$222-333k
Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
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
- Background with building high availability and mission critical systems
- Experience with leading an engineering team
- Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Bachelors in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience working in software engineering
- 2+ years of experience managing a team
- Experience with distributed systems and backend development
Desirable
- Masters/PhD in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent industry experience
- Experience working on online ranking/recommendations systems
- Experience building large scale production machine learning systems or data pipelines
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe2, PyTorch, Spark ML, scikit-learn, or related frameworks
- Experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Infrastructure and large-scale system design
- Experience with key infra technologies like NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, kafka, Kubernetes, Google/AWS services
- Experience building large scale production data pipelines
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical and highly-available global systems
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Infrastructure to join Snap!
- Manage and mentor a team of machine learning infrastructure engineers to build scalable, reliable and efficient machine learning training platform to support model training at Snap
- Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
- Establish good collaboration with Machine Learning Data, Machine Learning Inference, Ads Ranking, Content Recommendation and User Growth teams to enable more machine learning training and launches
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
- Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- 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!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company values
- We Are Kind - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Smart - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Creative - We gracefully manage ambiguity, cultivate innovation and demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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