Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications for Snap’s user-facing products. Develop interfaces and services, optimize performance, contribute to shared libraries, analyze operational and engagement metrics, and use AI-assisted workflows while maintaining code quality, security, scalability, and production readiness.

Leads and mentors a product engineering organization, setting technical vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable goals. Partners with Product, Design, Data Science, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, privacy-conscious products. Oversees distributed systems and product experiences, drives execution across strategic initiatives, develops engineering talent, hires leaders, and communicates priorities and risks to senior stakeholders.

Develop and ship high-performance iOS applications and camera experiences for Snapchat. Responsibilities include designing and implementing tested Objective-C software, launching features, evaluating technical tradeoffs, collaborating with Design, conducting code reviews, and using AI tools while maintaining strong standards for correctness, security, performance, and scalability.

Develop Android features and customer-facing mobile experiences from design through launch. Build smooth, stable, scalable products using Kotlin, Java, RxJava, Dagger, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Evaluate technical tradeoffs, collaborate with design, conduct code reviews, and uphold standards for correctness, security, performance, and production quality.

Develop and launch scalable Android features from design through implementation, creating smooth and stable user experiences. Evaluate technical tradeoffs, collaborate with design, conduct code reviews, and maintain high standards for correctness, security, performance, and production readiness. Use Kotlin, Java, RxJava, Dagger, and AI-assisted development tools. The role requires substantial software development experience and Android application expertise.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications and systems for Snap products. Develop user interfaces, optimize performance and browser rendering, contribute to shared libraries, analyze operational metrics, and deliver secure, production-ready code. The role requires strong front-end and back-end development skills, testing knowledge, distributed systems experience, and the ability to use AI tools responsibly in engineering workflows.

Design, implement, operate, and scale critical backend services such as identity, social graph, and persistence systems. Collaborate across teams to deliver product solutions, test and debug code, and apply best practices for availability, scalability, security, operational excellence, and cost management. Independently deliver medium-sized features, support incident resolution, and use AI tools responsibly to improve development workflows while maintaining production-quality standards.

Design and scale technical systems supporting advertiser acquisition, activation, retention, and growth. Build orchestration layers integrating CRM, BigQuery, Ads APIs, experimentation infrastructure, personalization, communications, signals, and automation tools. Translate GTM objectives into scalable systems and measurable outcomes while partnering across Sales, Growth, BI, Finance, Product, and Engineering. Recruit and lead technically fluent teams, manage roadmaps, and communicate adoption, ROI, and business impact to executives.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building Snap Map backend services and data infrastructure. Set strategy and roadmap, collaborate with product, data science, and ops, evaluate technical tradeoffs, hire and retain talent, and use AI tools and high-velocity workflows to design and ship scalable, production-ready distributed systems.

The Principal Software Engineer will design and implement systems for the advertiser experiences at Snap, lead technical vision, mentor engineers, and innovate on creator marketplace products.