Director of Software Engineering (Product Engineering)

Join Snap as the Director of Software Engineering, where you will lead a Product Engineering team to build experiences that delight Snapchatters and deliver meaningful business impact. You will shape the team's vision and strategy, develop a high-performing and inclusive organization, and partner closely with various leaders across the company. Your responsibilities will include managing and mentoring a team of software engineers, setting the technical vision and strategy, driving technical execution, and establishing high standards for availability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, operational excellence, and cost management.

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a high-performing and inclusive organization.
• Set the technical vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable goals for a product engineering area aligned to company priorities.
• Drive technical execution across a portfolio of initiatives, from near-term product launches to longer-term investments in architecture, platform capabilities, and engineering excellence.

• Ability to learn new concepts and technologies quickly and apply them effectively
• Proven experience building and operating highly available products or services at significant scale
• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, testing, and technical decision making
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems, set direction, and lead complex initiatives from strategy through delivery and operation
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, C++, Go, Python, Swift, Kotlin, or JavaScript
• Experience developing engineering talent, building effective teams, and fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement
• Strong collaboration, communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect technical choices to customer value and business outcomes
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems and modern product experiences
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, or equivalent years of practical work experience
• 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager or technical leader, including experience setting technical direction for engineering projects or organizations
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems and business critical products
• Experience leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams to consistently deliver complex, high impact work
• 10+ years of post Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field plus 9+ years of post graduate software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field plus 6+ years of post graduate software development experience
• Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science
• Experience building consumer products used at global scale
• Experience partnering with senior executives and management across a globally distributed organization, and exercising sound judgment in a fast changing environment
• Experience leading product engineering teams across multiple platforms, such as web, mobile, and backend systems
• Experience applying artificial intelligence or machine learning to product development, personalization, recommendations, search, or engineering productivity
• A track record of delivering in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi site, and multi stakeholder environments
• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate with clarity, and lead with a collaborative approach