Principal Software Engineer - Metadata

Snowflake

Bellevue, WA

Full Time

Senior

243k-380k

6 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake's metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake's query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace.

Key Responsibilities

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams.
Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Mentor and grow junior engineers.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance.

Requirements

15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Nice to Have

Masters or PhD in Computer Science.

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary with an estimated range of $243,000 - $379,500.
Participation in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Flexible spending & health savings accounts.
At least 12 paid holidays and paid time off.
Parental leave.
Employee assistance program and other company benefits.

Working at Snowflake

Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars. Snowflake is growing fast, scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We value sharing our core values, challenging ordinary thinking, and pushing the pace of innovation while building a future for ourselves and Snowflake. Every employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data and to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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