Manager, Software Engineering, Core Infra

About the role

The Core Infrastructure team is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the platform that powers Snap's critical Storage & Caching Infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to shape Snap's storage and caching strategy as we scale to meet the demands of an AI-first world.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of backend and full-stack developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
• Build infrastructure for data processing at Snap with large scale distributed systems
• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
• Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members

Qualifications

• Background with building high availability and mission critical systems
• Experience with leading an engineering team
• Experience leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience
• 1+ years of experience managing a team of engineers or acting as a technical lead
• Experience building large scale distributed systems
• Experience with big data processing and pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion
• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Trino, BigQuery, and Spark