Top Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

Design, implement, and operate large-scale backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Collaborate across teams to evaluate trade-offs, ensure availability, scalability, and security, participate in incidents, and use AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining code quality and operational excellence.

Lead a team building platforms, policy systems, automation, and validation to scale privacy across product and infrastructure. Design AI-assisted review, machine-readable policy, governance and enforcement mechanisms, and privacy validation loops. Partner with product, security, legal, and compliance to guide data use, retention, deletion, and AI/ML privacy tradeoffs. Coach engineers, raise technical quality, and enable product innovation within privacy boundaries including ads privacy and opt-out enforcement.

The Principal Software Engineer will design automated ad serving systems, lead technical direction, collaborate with teams, and mentor engineers.

Design, implement, and operate critical, highly scalable backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Collaborate across teams, build and test distributed systems, ensure availability and operational excellence, use AI tools to accelerate development, and participate in incident response and debugging.

Manage and mentor a backend and full-stack development team, set strategic goals, evaluate technical decisions, and collaborate with various stakeholders.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and operate scalable backend services, collaborate across teams, and ensure high system availability.

Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers to define strategy, roadmap, and measurable goals. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Operations, and executives to deliver scalable, high-availability services. Make technical tradeoffs, hire and retain talent, apply AI tools responsibly, and ensure code correctness, security, and production quality while executing large, complex initiatives.

Build and maintain People-team backend services and automations: design scalable solutions, integrate AI/LLM APIs, create middleware and chatbot integrations (Slack, Workday, Jira), automate HR workflows, deploy cloud services, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring operational excellence and testing.

Lead technical direction, design, build, and operate Snap's large-scale service and compute infrastructure. Drive platform roadmaps, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience. Act as hands-on staff tech lead across cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape infrastructure for an AI-first future.

Lead and mentor a team building Snap's storage and caching platform. Define strategy and roadmap, deliver large-scale distributed systems and big-data pipelines, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, evaluate technical tradeoffs, hire and retain engineers.