3 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support a highly scalable and reliable distributed cloud control-plane system.
- Develop the service architecture for the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.
- Analyze and resolve complex system performance and scalability bottlenecks.
- Own projects end to end, from solution identification and design through implementation, testing, and safe production rollout.
- Ensure operational readiness and perform production operations while meeting durability, availability, and performance commitments.
- Build high-quality, reliable software for large enterprise customers.
- Develop tools that improve system observability and insights.
- Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of industry experience working on commercial software.
- Strong problem-solving skills and deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, scaling, and failure recovery, plus strong fluency in Java.
- Experience implementing AI agents; reviewing human- and AI-generated code; testing, debugging, and deploying software to production.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Bonus: experience with SQL or other database control-plane technologies, including internal design and implementation.
- Bonus: experience deploying and managing distributed key-value stores such as FoundationDB across multiple clouds.
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.