3 months ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Menlo Park, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale, highly parallel, fault-tolerant cloud database.
- Build reliable software for large enterprise customers.
- Analyze and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks.
- Identify problems, instrument relevant system components, and implement solutions.
- Design and implement query optimization and distributed data processing algorithms.
- Design and implement service architecture for the Snowflake Data Cloud.
- Develop tools that improve customers’ insight into their workloads.
- Follow confidentiality and data security standards for handling sensitive customer data.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
- Fluency in Java or C++.
- Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Systems programming experience with multithreading and concurrency.
- Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to work on-site in the Menlo Park, Bellevue, or Berlin office.
- Master’s or PhD preferred.
- Experience with SQL or database technologies, query optimization, query execution, or compiler design is a bonus.
- Experience with FoundationDB, RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, Cassandra, columnar databases, database replication, or large-scale distributed systems is a bonus.
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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.