Principal Software Engineer Manageability

Snowflake

Menlo Park, CA

Full Time

Senior

243k-380k

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

Snowflake is one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in history. As we scale rapidly, we're expanding our team to support and accelerate this growth. We're passionate about our people, our customers, our values, and our culture. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead key initiatives within Snowflake's globally distributed infrastructure. Manageability is at the heart of our Data Cloud strategy, powering cloud administration and serving as the primary gateway into the Snowflake platform, responsible for managing core entities that govern how customers operate within the system. As more customers adopt multi-region and multi-cloud strategies, the complexity of modeling organizational hierarchies grows, and these constructs must work reliably and consistently across cloud providers and geographies. The role involves designing and delivering foundational systems that scale with our customers and their data.

Key Responsibilities

Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure
Innovate and build large scale high reliability systems to manage the control and data plane of account and organization management
Architect for infrastructure to survive system outages, and provide a framework for handling critical systems
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, data scientists, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance

Requirements

12+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, etc., with fluency in Java or similar procedural object-oriented language preferred
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems
Knowledge of database internals is a big plus
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD preferred

Nice to Have

Knowledge of database internals
Masters or PhD in Computer Science

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science
Masters or PhD preferred

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary range of $243,000 - $379,500 plus bonus and equity plan
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible spending & health savings account
At least 12 paid holidays
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Other company benefits

Working at Snowflake

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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