2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, implement, and scale database products for internal needs.
- Create cloud-agnostic software infrastructure and abstractions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives from inception through production.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and establish software engineering best practices.
- Harden database infrastructure to meet uptime, security, and durability service-level requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex production incident investigations, and direct blameless post-mortems.
- Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to support scalable product capabilities.
Requirements
- US citizenship or lawful permanent residency is required.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7–12 years of professional experience designing, building, operating, and scaling large-scale backend distributed systems in high-growth production environments.
- Knowledge of databases including PostgreSQL and Redis, with experience operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on coding proficiency in Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
- Extensive experience architecting infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including cloud networking constructs such as VPC peering, PrivateLink, and Transit Gateways.
- Experience automating global fleet deployment and configuration with Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Proven technical ownership, ability to turn ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps, and experience delivering high-impact projects across multiple engineering teams.
Benefits
- The role is located in Menlo Park, California.
- The position offers a collaborative, blameless engineering culture and opportunities to work on complex platform challenges at massive scale.
- Salary and benefits information is provided through the Snowflake Careers Site.
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About Snowflake
Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.