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.
The Spectacles team is pushing the boundaries of technology to bring people closer together in the real world. Our fifth-generation Spectacles, powered by Snap OS, showcase how standalone, see-through AR glasses make playing, learning, and working better together.
We're looking for a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to join the Specs team at Snap Inc!
What you'll do:
Design, build, and operate foundational cloud platform components on AWS and GCP that power Spectacles and the next generation of AR experiences at Snap.
Build shared infrastructure for Spectacles - such as service mesh, identity and access management, observability, secure compute environments, and multi-region data and compute platforms - that engineering teams across Specs consume as reusable building blocks.
Own services end-to-end in production, including SLOs, on-call rotations, capacity planning, and incident response, ensuring Spectacles experiences stay reliable globally.
Engineer infrastructure with strong isolation, encryption, and access-control guarantees so security and privacy are built in by design - a critical bar for a wearable, always-on AR device.
Partner with internal product and engineering teams across Specs to onboard them onto new platform capabilities and make sure those platforms meet their requirements.
Collaborate with Security, Privacy, and Compliance partners to ensure infrastructure meets Snap's bar for data protection and regulatory obligations.
Help shape the longer-term technical direction of the Spectacles cloud platform, and mentor other engineers on the team.
Minimum Qualifications:
BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and cloud infrastructure at scale on AWS (e.g. EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, KMS)
Proficiency in Go
Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture
Ability to drive scope and deliver complex platform projects with minimal supervision
Strong problem-solving skills and a bias for diving into end-to-end details
Friendly, efficient, and proactive communicator who collaborates effectively across engineering, security, privacy, product, and design teams
Comfortable balancing the need to ship foundational capabilities quickly with the stability and operational maturity expected of platform infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in addition to AWS, and familiarity with multi-cloud and multi-region architectures
Hands-on experience building shared platform components - service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy), networking, identity, or observability -consumed by other engineering teams
Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and secrets / identity management (Vault, SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS)
Experience with confidential / secure compute environments, zero-trust architectures, or privacy-preserving systems
Working knowledge of C++, Java, Python, and/or TypeScript in addition to Go
Prior experience leading a small team of junior-to-senior engineers and owning platform-level technical direction
Experience supporting consumer hardware, wearables, or AR/VR products from the cloud
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!
