Principal Software Engineer, Snap Inc.
Monetization
$208-366k
Salary dependent on location. This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
4 days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Job no longer available
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$208-366k
Salary dependent on location. This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
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
- We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Ad Attribution team at Snap
- Expertise in ad measurement and attribution systems
- Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Large-scale microservices and distributed systems
- Cloud computing and storage systems
- Infrastructure and large-scale system design
- Information Retrieval/Search Systems
- Machine learning for search and/or recommender systems
- Proficiency coding in Java, C++, and/or Python
- Ability to collaborate and work well with others
- BS degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience
- 14+ years of software development experience
Desirable
- Proven track record of delivering large scale projects in attribution and measurement
- Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems
What the job involves
- The Ad Attribution team develops and maintains systems that power performance advertising on Snap
- The projects range from developing and optimizing high-throughput, highly available mission-critical systems to green-field research and development projects, particularly in privacy centric ad measurement
- The team operates in a cross-functional setting closely collaborating with multiple product and engineering teams including business analytics, causal measurement, targeting and optimization and privacy engineering
- Technical oversight over the lifecycle of the attribution signals from ingestion to use in measurement, ad ranking, and optimization
- Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from signal ingestion, identity graph, attribution systems and privacy enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation
- Drive and coordinate large-scale projects spanning Infra, ML and data pipeline components
- Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to support Snap’s performance advertising suite
- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
- Technical influence that spans the entire company
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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