3 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$200k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate backend software and distributed systems powering Snowflake Warehouses.
- Own medium-sized engineering projects from technical design through delivery and contribute to larger cross-team initiatives.
- Build and evolve warehouse features, billing, metering, and usability capabilities.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational health of production warehouse systems.
- Participate across the software lifecycle, including testing, rollout, on-call support, issue triage, and production improvements.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and adjacent teams to deliver durable customer and business solutions.
- Resolve complex production issues through debugging and systems thinking, and contribute through design reviews, code reviews, and technical communication.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming, debugging, and software design skills in one or more modern programming languages.
- Experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
- Ability to independently deliver medium-sized projects and contribute effectively to larger cross-team projects.
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Experience with on-call, production support, or incident response for live systems.
- Strong communication, collaboration, customer orientation, and judgment regarding reliability, usability, and business impact.
- Preferred: Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Preferred: Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, large-scale backend services, billing, metering, control plane systems, or performance-sensitive and highly reliable production environments.
Tech Stack
Snowflake
Categories
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.