Staff Software Engineer (Growth Notifications)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Growth Notifications): Designing, implementing, and operating highly available backend services for hirify.global's growth notification platform with an accent on reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and DAU/MAU impact. Focus on leading technical direction, defining multi-quarter roadmaps, and driving large, ambiguous projects from concept through launch and iteration.

Location: Must work in an office 4+ days per week in Bellevue or Los Angeles, United States

Salary: $195,000–$343,000 annually

Company

Snap Inc is a technology company focused on improving communication through products like hirify.global, Lens Studio, and Spectacles.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate highly available backend services that power hirify.global’s growth notification platform.
• Own the end-to-end architecture for Snap’s Growth Notification systems, focusing on reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and DAU/MAU impact.
• Lead technical direction for the Growth Notifications team, define multi-quarter roadmaps, and drive large projects.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate upstream signals and downstream use cases into a coherent, scalable platform.
• Advocate for and apply best practices in distributed systems, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and cost management.

Requirements

• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience or equivalent with Master's/PhD.
• Demonstrated track record of building and operating reliable, scalable services in cloud technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and operating backend services or distributed systems at significant scale.
• Proven track record of owning highly-available, mission-critical systems, including on-call participation and incident response.
• Strong foundation in system design (APIs, data models, storage, pub/sub, queues, workflow orchestration) and performance/latency optimization.
• Deep experience with observability (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards) and using data to debug, harden, and evolve large-scale systems.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with one or more of: Java, Go, C++, and/or Python.
• Experience with NoSQL data stores, caches (Memcache/Redis), and cloud services (Google Cloud, AWS).
• Experience with pub/sub and task-queue systems (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub) in high-throughput environments.
• Experience with notification, messaging, growth, or experimentation platforms, including ranking, targeting, and A/B testing at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy for a team or domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Practice a “default together” approach, requiring office work 4+ days per week.
• Comprehensive benefits including paid parental leave, medical coverage, and emotional/mental health support.
• Compensation packages include equity in the form of RSUs.
• Committed to diversity and an equal opportunity employer.
• Recognized as one of the "100 Best Places to Work" by Built In.