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We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.\nThe Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.\nWe’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team!\nPlatform Engineering builds the tools, frameworks, and internal platforms that help engineers at Snap develop high-quality software in a fast development cycle, with a strong focus on quality, developer productivity, and operational excellence. In this role, you’ll help build the next generation of AI-powered testing tools and infrastructure across Snapchat’s mobile apps and multi-cloud backend services, including agent harnesses, evaluation systems, Temporal-based workflows, and telemetry-driven debugging capabilities. You’ll work across teams to turn product and engineering needs into scalable platforms that reduce manual work, surface regressions earlier in CI/CD, and make it easier for engineers to ship reliable software faster.\nWhat you’ll do:\nBuild and own agent harnesses and testing infrastructure-tool design, prompt engineering, context management, and output evaluation-to drive functional and load testing across Snapchat's mobile apps and multi-cloud backend services\n\nPush AI-native engineering practices across the team: writing reusable skills, standing up looped and scheduled agents, building MCP tools, and offloading ops work (deploys, log triage, JIRA updates) to agents instead of doing it by hand\n\nArchitect Temporal-based workflows and services that speed up detection of bugs and regressions in the CI/CD pipeline, applying async Python, workflow determinism constraints, and typed dataclass-driven design\n\nBuild the telemetry and evaluation layer that makes agent behavior measurable-writing non-trivial BigQuery SQL, reasoning about mobile telemetry (Blizzard-style events, client vs. server timestamps, sampling), and turning raw logs into actionable hypotheses\n\nWork across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to ship innovative products\n\nAdvocate for and apply best practices around availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management\n\nBe part of a passionate team building the next generation of Snapchat's AI-powered testing tools and infrastructure\n\nKnowledge, Skills & Abilities:\nExperience designing, building, and operating backend services or distributed systems at significant scale.\n\nProven track record of owning highly-available, mission-critical systems, including on-call participation, incident response, and driving systemic fixes.\n\nAbility to set technical vision and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives over multiple quarters, balancing architectural quality, reliability, and product velocity.\n\nStrong foundation in system design (APIs, data models, storage, pub/sub, queues, and workflow orchestration) and performance/latency optimization.\n\nDeep experience with observability (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards) and using data to debug, harden, and evolve large-scale systems.\n\nExcellent collaboration and communication skills; able to work effectively with Product, DS, ML, Design, and other engineering teams to align on requirements and trade-offs.\n\nAbility to mentor and uplevel engineers, provide clear technical guidance, and create structures that make the team more effective over time\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience\n\n9+ years of software development experience; or Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience; or PhD with 5+ years of experience\n\nExperience acting as a technical lead, domain expert, or owner of complex technical initiatives\n\nExperience building backend systems or distributed systems in production environments\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with Java, Go, Python, C++, or similar backend languages\n\nExperience with large-scale microservices, cloud infrastructure, storage systems, or platform architecture\n\nExperience with Kubernetes, containerized systems, data infrastructure, or service platforms\n\nExperience with developer tooling, CI/CD, internal platforms, or engineering productivity systems\n\nExperience building AI developer tools, coding assistants, eval systems, or workflow automation for engineers\n\nExperience driving multi-year technical direction for a platform or infrastructure area\n\nTrack record of delivering large-scale, high-impact technical work across team boundaries\n\n\"Default Together\" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.\nAt Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).\nOur Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!\nCompensation\nIn the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. 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