Cloud Software Engineer - Specs Team

About the role

Snap Inc is looking for a Cloud Software Engineer to join the Specs team. You will build and operate the cloud services behind Specs, and use your full-stack experience to build the web tools and portals that developers use every day.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate full-stack cloud components and web applications on AWS and GCP that power Specs and the developer ecosystem for AR experiences.
• Build the web-based developer console/portal and foundational services used by external and internal developers to build, manage and deploy Lenses, prioritizing developer experience and intuitive frontend design.
• Own services end-to-end in production, including SLOs, on-call rotations, capacity planning and incident response.
• Engineer infrastructure with strong isolation, encryption and access control, so security and privacy are built in by design.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to onboard them onto new platform capabilities, and work with Security, Privacy and Compliance partners on data protection and regulatory obligations.
• Help shape the longer-term technical direction of the Specs cloud platform.

Required profile

• 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, KMS).
• Production experience with full-stack web development (React, TypeScript, Node.js) alongside containerization and cloud tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines).
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking and cloud architecture; ability to drive complex platform projects with minimal supervision.
• Proactive communicator who works well across engineering, security, privacy, product and design teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform in addition to AWS, and familiarity with multi-cloud and multi-region architectures.
• Experience building developer portals, web consoles or self-serve developer tools with a focus on UX/DX.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and secrets / identity management.
• Experience with confidential or secure compute environments, zero-trust architectures, or privacy-preserving systems.
• Working knowledge of C++, Java, Python.
• Experience supporting consumer hardware, wearables or AR/VR products from the cloud.

The company expects team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. Benefits mentioned include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages.