Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Level 6

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 operates Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world and Specs Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human in addition to Bitmoji Saturn and other digital services.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world every day. Were 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.

Youll play a critical role in scaling our ML Infrastructure optimizing our embedding feature and training data storage and compute to enable different paradigms of ML models at massive scale make Snapchats ranking and recommendation systems more efficient and impactful.

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer ML Infrastructure to join Snap Inc!

What youll do:

• Design and optimize infrastructure systems for machine learning workloads at scale and drive reliability and efficiency improvements across Snapchats ML Infrastructure

• Develop high-performance embedding generation / batch inference systems to improve model performance

• Develop high-performance data storage/compute systems to improve the efficiency of our ML infrastructure

• Integrate state of the art ML data quality system to assure model performance

• Build comprehensive data management systems for scalable data collection labeling processing and evaluation

• Work closely with ML engineers to deploy cutting-edge models into production

• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness security and production ready quality code

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Strong programming skills in Python Java Scala or C

• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on system performance scalability and efficiency

• Good understanding of distributed systems and the infrastructure components of large-scale ML

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

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

• Proficiency in or a strong aptitude for leveraging AI tools to streamline development paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity performance bottlenecks and security risks.

• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience

• 9 years of post-Bachelors software development experience; or Masters degree in a technical field 5 years of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field 2 years of post-grad software development experience

• Experience building large scale production machine learning systems distributed systems or big data processing

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Spark Flink or Ray

• Experience with large scale feature store or embedding system

• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Pytorch Tensorflow

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Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community so weve 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 Snaps long-term success!

Compensation

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