Snap Inc is a technology company. 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. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Inc is a technology company. 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. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure to join the User Understanding team at Snap Inc. Our team is building a central system to understand user interests and personalize their experiences.

What you'll do:

• Combine strong software engineering principles with machine learning to build scalable, reproducible and easy-to-use end-to-end machine learning workflows for advanced deep learning problems

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of systems that generate user understanding embeddings.

• Assist in optimizing pipelines to ensure data freshness.

• Learn and contribute to scalable model training frameworks.

• Gain experience working with user feature serving systems.

• Collaborate with the team to develop strategies for keeping user profiles up-to-date.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: 

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design

• Proficiency coding with Java, C++, and/or Python

• Ability to operate highly-available systems at significant scale

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience

• 3+ years of software development experience

• Proficient at scaling ML embedding training and inference distributed systems

• Experience with at least one programming language like Golang, Java, or Python 

• Experience in building and operating machine learning and large-scale systems

• Experience with preprocessing data pipelines

Preferred Qualifications 

• Masters/PhD in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent industry experience

• Experience with building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines for user understanding use cases.

• Familiarity with distributed computing systems used for large-scale machine learning.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"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. 

At 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.

Our 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!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

Zone B:

Zone C:

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.