Principal Engineer - Metadata

Snowflake

5 months ago

Bellevue, WA, USA or Menlo Park, CA, USA

Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$304k - $437k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for metadata.
Create and own architecture and design, influencing the product roadmap.
Analyze and solve fault-tolerance, high availability, performance, and scale challenges.
Mentor and grow junior engineers.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, and costs.
Ensure operational readiness of services and meet customer commitments.

15+ years of industry experience in designing and supporting large scale distributed services.
Deep expertise in database systems internals including metadata management and replication.
Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Excellent understanding of systems infrastructure product development concepts.
Fluency in Java or similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.
Track record of implementing creative solutions to complex problems at cloud scale.
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations.
BS in Computer Science; advanced degree preferred.

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