Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform

Snap, Palo Alto, California +4

What you will do

Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.
Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization
Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services
Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
Provide technical direction that influences the entire company
Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to support Snap’s performance advertising suite
Technical influence that spans the entire company

Snap, Palo Alto, California +4

$235K–$414K

a year

This base pay is above the median for principal infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area.

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Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.
Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization
Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services
Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
Provide technical direction that influences the entire company
Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to support Snap’s performance advertising suite
Technical influence that spans the entire company