Software Engineer, Snap
Spam and Abuse
$209-313k
+ Equity in the form of RSUs
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, CA)
Social media & camera company
Open for applications
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$209-313k
+ Equity in the form of RSUs
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, 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
- Proven expertise in backend services or distributed systems, with experience in large-scale microservices, security or abuse prevention systems
- Big data processing pipelines and analytics
- Strong programming skills in Golang or Java
- Familiarity with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, and cloud services like Google Cloud or AWS
- Experience operating highly-available systems at scale and resolving production issues
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent years of experience
- 6+ years of software development experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems
- Passion for learning and applying security knowledge to protect users
Desirable
- Experience designing and implementing systems to prevent spam, abuse, or fraud
- Experience working in the security domain or with similar challenges in spam & abuse detection and mitigation
- Familiarity with big data technologies like BigQuery, Spark, or similar platforms
What the job involves
- Snap Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer, Spam & Abuse to build scalable, high-quality systems that protect Snapchat users from spam and abuse
- Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services to detect and prevent spam and abuse across the Snapchat ecosystem
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver robust solutions to combat spam and abuse
- Develop and optimize detection pipelines using big data and machine learning frameworks to identify malicious patterns
- Ensure systems are highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient while maintaining operational excellence
- Investigate and resolve incidents related to spam and abuse, contributing to postmortems and continuous improvements
- Advocate for and apply best practices in system design, security, and user privacy
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.
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
- 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 HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
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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