Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - STORAGE PLATFORM IO 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

100086748

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the systematic improvements at the heart of the IO stack

• Set the direction for the Storage technical area spanning multiple core Snowflake teams
• Have an opportunity to redefine availability and latency SLOs for the IO subsystem, connecting them to the customer experience of using Snowflake table storage, and unstructured data
• Drive the performance improvements across the stack, to decrease tail latency and reduce query run time variability
• Implement critical capabilities for supporting advanced features offered by different Cloud Providers
• Analyze performance and availability issues, and collaborate closely with cloud providers to influence the shared roadmap for maximizing uptime and minimizing cost for Snowflake customers
• Advance local disk caching strategy, using your understanding of the tradeoffs between local disk access patterns, and remote IO requests
• Collaborate closely with Product managers, Architects, and other engineering teams
• Participate in on-call rotation and shape the strategy for continuing to keep the on-call load low, while enabling 10x growth

• An excellent team player who is committed to helping everyone around them maximize their potential and growth
• Be aligned with the
• Previous experience in setting and tracking the internal service uptime and performance objectives across teams and organizations.
• Previous experience driving performance improvements directly and in collaboration with other engineers
• Experience with at least one of the public cloud storage providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong development skills in C++. Java experience is a plus
• Previous experience with Curl C++ library is a plus