https://eng.snap.com https://eng.snap.com/ds_agent 2026-09-10T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/specs_experiences 2026-08-20T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/casper 2026-07-28T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/specs_gnss 2026-07-10T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/code_search 2026-07-01T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/spatial_intelligence 2026-06-16T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/codepal 2026-06-05T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/spectacles_supabase 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/performance_as_a_feature 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/flowrida 2026-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/snap-nvidia-gcp 2026-03-16T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/spatial_interaction 2026-03-13T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/agent-format 2026-03-11T00:00:00.000-07:00 https://eng.snap.com/eyeconnect 2026-01-27T00:00:00.000-08:00 Prism is a Spark-powered platform at Snap that simplifies ML data processing, enhancing speed & consistency. https://eng.snap.com/universal_user_modeling 2025-12-12T00:00:00.000-07:00 Prism is a Spark-powered platform at Snap that simplifies ML data processing, enhancing speed & consistency. https://eng.snap.com/prism 2025-09-05T00:00:00.000-07:00 Our advertising platform at Snap receives a large volume of new ads every day. To maintain a high-quality and relevant ad ecosystem, we need to review these creatives at scale, to ensure they align with our policies, are safe for our community, and are shown to the right Snapchatters. https://eng.snap.com/snap-ads-understanding 2025-04-23T13:00:00.000-07:00 Building ML at scale: Discover how Snap's Bento ML Platform powers personalized user experiences through cutting-edge ML Ops Snap Platform Engineering Team https://eng.snap.com/introducing-bento 2025-01-28T13:00:00.000-07:00 At Snap, we want to empower you to learn about the world and have fun with other Snapchatters. On Spotlight, Snap’s short-video platform, we personalize what you see based on your interests and previous watch history. This blog discusses the challenges we faced and techniques we applied for large-scale embedding-based retrieval, which selects the stories that users may like from a large candidate pool in real time. Snap Discover Team https://eng.snap.com/embedding-based-retrieval 2023-06-06T00:00:00.000-07:00 At Snap, privacy is a central part of our product philosophy. We want Snapchatters to feel safe and secure interacting with their friends and exploring the world around them without worrying about the privacy of their data. To achieve this goal one of the tools we use is Differential Privacy (DP), the de facto privacy standard in both industry and academia. In this article, first we summarize some of the privacy concerns that Snap and the industry as a whole face. Then we examine how Snap uses DP to address those concerns regarding friend recommendations and Maps features. Snap Security Team https://eng.snap.com/differential-privacy-at-snap 2022-12-15T00:00:00.000-07:00 Behind the lens: How supplemental feeds help advertisers bring the AR experience to Snap ads and reach millions of Snapchatters. Catalog Platform Team https://eng.snap.com/ar-enabled-catalogs 2022-11-11T00:00:00.000-07:00 At Snap, we have a strong focus on user experience and have built many ML applications to surface the right content to our users. We present Robusta: our in-house feature platform, built to streamline and accelerate ML iteration. Snap Feature Platform team https://eng.snap.com/speed-up-feature-engineering 2022-09-29T15:00:00.000-04:00 At Snap we develop a large number of products and solutions powered by ML. Modern ML models require tons of high-quality data to be collected, labeled and processed. All these processes may frequently take a long time and lots of resources. In this post we talk about how we leverage synthetic data to boost the development of our ML models. Cameos Team https://eng.snap.com/synthetic-data-for-machine-learning 2022-09-01T00:00:00.000-08:00 Compression is broadly used across web and mobile applications, and Snap is no exception. Video compression is one of the core technical considerations at Snap. It enables our users to share and enjoy the moments in daily lives. In this post we’ll talk a bit about the fundamentals of compression, and then describe how we’ve recently invested in improving compression for video to achieve performant, high quality results. Media Delivery Team https://eng.snap.com/snap-video-compression 2022-06-30T15:00:00.000-04:00 How do we ensure consistency, accuracy, and relevancy? And more importantly, how do we ensure operating measures - metrics - already in use are trustworthy and measuring as intended? Social Technology Operating Measures Principles - or STOMP - is a set of principles to help standardize the measurement and qualification of metrics. The Metrics Governance Team https://eng.snap.com/stomp-out-bad-metrics 2022-05-12T15:00:00.000-04:00 PlayCanvas is the leading HTML5 game engine powering 3D experiences and games on many of the world’s most popular websites. PlayCanvas joined Snap in 2017 to help build Snap Games, Snapchat’s multiplayer gaming platform. PlayCanvas Team https://eng.snap.com/playcanvas-backend-infrastructure 2022-04-14T15:00:00.000-05:00 Earlier this month, we launched a new feature called Custom Landmarkers in Lens Studio, which lets AR creators and developers anchor Lenses to local places they care about – from statues to storefronts – to tell richer stories about their communities through AR. Now, any creator with a LiDAR-enabled phone can create their own Landmarker in a matter of minutes – taking a big step forward in democratizing AR. The Augmented Reality Team https://eng.snap.com/life-with-ar-landmarkers 2022-03-31T00:00:00.000-02:00 This post describes how we leveraged Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPU) for fast and efficient training. 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