Manager, Software Engineering

$222,000 - $333,000/Yr

Snap Inc. - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Manager

Palo Alto, CA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Software Engineering Manager at Snap Inc. will lead a team of engineers to architect and enhance Snap's large-scale storage and caching multi-cloud infrastructure. This role involves managing and mentoring full-stack developers, setting strategic goals, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality products. The manager will also evaluate technical decisions and ensure the team's growth and performance in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of highly talented engineers to architect and renovate Snap's large scale Storage and Caching multi-cloud infrastructure
• Manage and mentor a team of full-stack developers in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Cloud Providers, 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

Requirements

• Bachelors in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience working in software engineering
• 2+ years of experience managing a team
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure and operational excellence patterns and practices
• Background with building high availability and mission critical distributed systems
• Experience with leading an engineering team
• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Cloud Storage services such as DynamoDB, Spanner, BigTable, and FireStore
• Experience promoting operational excellence, leading incident management, and post mortems
• Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical and highly-available global distributed systems

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Emotional and mental health support programs
• Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success